You Khin ( km, យូឃិន, 2 March 1947 – 9 August 2009) was a Cambodian architect and artist. He graduated from the Royal University of Fine Arts in 1973, and left Cambodia prior to the

Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...

evacuation of Phnom Penh. Over the next two decades, he practised architecture in France, Sudan, Qatar and the United Kingdom. You Khin returned to Cambodia in 2003 with his wife Muoy where they founded a Montessori school for disadvantaged children and a guesthouse to help support it. His mixed media paintings are of the

impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

style and have been exhibited in the US, Sudan, the UK and Cambodia. The You Khin Memorial Women's Art Prize was established by the United States Embassy in Cambodia and JavaArts

Life

You Khin was born in Kampong Cham in 1947 to a farming family. He was inspired to paint by his uncle who painted murals in local pagodas. You Khin went on to study Interior Architecture in Phnom Penh, followed by a focus on 3D art in Marseilles.

Themes

You Khin's work focuses on interactions among people, often faceless. The artist communicated sentiment related to the

rule of Cambodia during his time in exile. Women feature prominently in the artist's later works.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:You, Khin 1947 births 2009 deaths People from Phnom Penh Cambodian architects 20th-century architects