Linda Sok
Linda Sok is an interdisciplinary artist working with sculptural installations, based in Sydney, Australia and Providence, USA. Linda has exhibited throughout institutions in Australia, North America, Europe, and South East Asia, including the Textile Art Center (NY, USA), Center for Craft (NC, USA), Campbelltown Arts Center (NSW, Australia), Artspace (NSW, Australia), Institute of Modern Art (QLD, Australia), Gertrude Contemporary (VIC, Australia), Maloop (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), ISA Gallery (Jakarta, Indonesia) and Copenhagen University (CPH, Denmark). In 2024 she was awarded the Monash Room Emerging Artist Prize from the Australian Consulate in New York, and the Dorner Prize through the RISD Museum in Providence, RI. She has participated in the Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency and New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Mentorship. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales Art & Design with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Fine Arts. Linda completed her MFA in Sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2025.
soft presence, hard absence, 2024. Silk, dye, air dry clay, resin, shelves, reproductions of paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith and Rebecca Smith, letters exchanged between the RISD Museum director and artist. 118 x 147 x 16 in. Courtesy of the RISD Museum. Photo: Erik Gould.
palm sugar drip, 2024. Sand blessed by a monk at Wat Thormikaram, bentonite, palm sugar, water, glass (embedded with silk), prints of a painting done by Joseph Lindon Smith, geotextile, metal. 60 x 35 x 120 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
Ritual for Return, 2023. Silk (remnants from original weaving “Deities in Temples”), unknown thread, air dry clay, copper rod, sand, dye, trinkets, performance. 118 x 78 x 78 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
Deities in Temples XIV, 2025. Visuals drawn by family members, silk threads (printed then woven), dye. 54 x 84 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
Deities in Temples IX, 2024. Visuals drawn by family members, silk threads (printed then woven), dye. 37 x 78 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
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