Samboleap Tol
Samboleap Tol’s work spans performance, installation, sound, and storytelling, with a focus on the psychic and emotional terrain of the postcolonial diaspora. Central to her practice are questions of inherited memory, ancestral presence, and the rituals of reckoning with untold histories. Drawing on spiritual and cosmological frameworks—particularly from Khmer traditions—her work navigates the spaces between the living and the dead, the spoken and the silenced. Tol’s practice creates intimate encounters that invite reflection on collective memory, intergenerational healing, and the quiet endurance of dignity and love in the wake of historical rupture.
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The Cosmic Tortois (2024)
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Dharma Songs (2023)
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Starlight (2025)
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Tails of the Past (2023)
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Walking Into The Future Blind (2023)
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Samboleap Tol (1990) is a Rotterdam-based artist and research associate at the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), University of the Arts London. A graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute—where she received the 2021 Masters Research Award—she also studied Fine Arts at Sint Lucas School of Arts and Design (Antwerp) and Central Saint Martins (London), and holds a Media degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Sydney.
Her work has been exhibited or performed at South London Gallery (2019), Framer Framed (2023), Tate Modern (2018), Ufer Studios (2023), de Balie (2023), TENT (2023), and more. She has taught at Camberwell College of the Arts (UAL) and Willem de Kooning Academie (HR), and organized the first student-led exhibition at Central Saint Martins (Lethaby Gallery, 2018).
She has been artist-in-residence at the Cemeti Institute (Yogyakarta) and Rib (Rotterdam), and in November 2023, won the 10th Dolf Henkes Prijs, a major biannual prize for Rotterdam-based artists.
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