Reaksmey Yean is an art advocate, an early-career art curator and researcher, and a native of Battambang, Cambodia. In 2014, he received the Alphawood scholarship to study Buddhist and Hindu art from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. In 2017, he was the first recipient of LASALLE College of the Art’s Southeast Asia (SEAsia) Scholars Award, which enabled him to undertake the MA Asian Art Histories Programme at LASALLE. His research interests focus on Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand in the areas of de-colonialism, gender studies, deconstructionism (which developed during his time at LASALLE) and tradition in terms of Buddhist art.