By Allison Chhorn (Artist in Residence Adelaide Fringe 2026)
Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living on Kaurna Land (South Australia). Her work explores the effects of migrant displacement and post-memory through impressionistic forms, often with family members as subjects.
Since graduating with Honours in painting at UniSA in 2014, she has made numerous fils which has screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival, New York Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
Crossing into the gallery, she received the 2022 Porter St Commission from Adelaide Contemporary Experimental Gallery to make her first solo exhibition and multi-channel installation “Skin Shade Night Day” which was exhibited as part of the National: Australian Art Now(MCA, 2023).
In 2024, she received the Arts SA Fellowship which allowed her to undertake a residency in Phnom Penh, Cambodia which even-tuated in her second solo show “Reflections in the Water” at Outer Space, Magandjin (Brisbane).
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