Tith Kanitha ស្ដាប់មិនជាក់ កុំអាលញាក់ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity
The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to announce “ស្ដាប់ មិន ជាក់ កុំ អាល ញាក់ ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity”, a solo exhibition featuring new work by artist Tith Kanitha (b. 1987, lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia). The Institute’s Fall 2026 iteration proudly continues the Great Hall Exhibition series’ engagement with extraordinary women artists and will be Tith’s first solo institutional presentation in the United States and her New York debut. “ស្ដាប់ មិន ជាក់ កុំ អាល ញាក់ ចិញ្ចើម Journey into Clarity” will feature Tith’s celebrated organic sculptural forms in The James B. Duke House’s Marica Vilcek Great Hall. In her practice, Tith coils steel wire by hand around a thin copper steel rod and shapes the malleable lengths into porous abstractions that oscillate between line and mass. Each sculpture, made without preparatory drawings, takes shape through patient, iterative gestures. Slow and methodical, her embodied technique is a meditation on Cambodia’s past and present, refusing to resolve the questions that history leaves open.
Opening: Wednesday, November 4 at 6:00 pm Institute of Fine Arts, 1 E 78th Street
Screening and Talk with Tith Kanitha and Jeannine Tang: Friday, November 6, 6:00 pm The Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor
Tith Kanitha in conversation with Sohrab Mohebbi: Monday, November 9, 6:00 pm Institute of Fine Arts, 1 E 78th Street
Exhibition tours to the broader Asian communities of New York are available.
This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Valeria NapoleoneXX. Additional support provided by The Institutum and Joy Wang.
Special thanks to the artist, Tith Kanitha. Jennifer Byun, Shreya Dwibedy, Alicia Lee, Phoebe More, Lilia Muscarella, Zia Pao-Ziegler, Daisy Ryan, and Janice Zhai curated the exhibition. Thanks also to Joan Kee, Catherine Quan Damman, Jason Dubs, Sarah Higby, Nadia Rivers, Lisa McGhie, as well as many other IFA faculty and staff for their support. Jason Varone designed the website.