Chanthou Oeur
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Chanthou Oeur, also known as O'Bon, is a Cambodian painter and sculptor living in the United States since the 1980s. [1]
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He was born on a small sandy island about 20 miles from Phnom Penh. Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by various foster families but it was monks that are responsible for much of his nurturing and he spent much of his childhood living in Buddhist temples.
The social and political turmoil in Cambodia led him to leave in the 1980's and he settled in the United States where his interest in the arts continued from his time at admiring artwork in his native temples. His art began very early in his life, at the age of 2 or 3, when my hands started to coordinate with my eyes." He had difficulty knowing "whether art is part of his life or his life part of his art."[2]
Self-taught with a natural ability, Chanthou Oeur works in a variety of mediums of art, including stone, metal and wood
Since the 1980s Chanthou Oeur has participated in a number of exhibitions. receiving much acclaim at the global Cambodian Art Festival held in Long Beach, California where he won his first award for his work. He participated in the Smithsonian's Natural History exhibit Across the Seas and Over the Mountains, and took part in a Khmer Arts exhibition at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
More recently he has begun to write poetry and together with his artwork made a presentation at the Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [3]
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added 5/ 15 /2008 by david trembley
chanthou oeur has a web site of pics of some of his works and personal photos some of which i have taken for him since we first met early 1981. this is his personal web site link
http://kraychakraoeur.mysite.com/
i have chanthou's personal ok to add this to wikipedia.
googeling chanthou ouer will produce many pages and articles about his life.
My name is David Trembley I am chanthou's first american friend. (no i have nothing to do with baseball) few know that chanthou oeur's birth name was chakra oeur and he is known internationally by 3 names ; they are Chanthou oeur , Chakra oeur and O'bon oeur.
i may add more as time goes by....
