"In his new book, artist and author Chath pierSath creates fictional letters to reflect on the lives of those under the Khmer Rouge"   More...
-- Hope Will Float on Tears, by Michelle Vachon, ©2009 The Cambodia Daily

"Emerging out of the dark, invisible in society, little people," says Chath pierSath, "we all exist like that begging for something, looking for something."   More...
-- Art Therapy: Faces Stare Back, by Emily Lodish, ©2007 The Cambodia Daily

Chath pierSath is a passionate man. Painting, writing or speaking, he exudes intensity. But there's an ironic aspect to this painter and poet - a key player in Cambodia's fledgling contemporary art scene. Like the archetypal sad clown, the vibrant Chath's conversation often turns to sorrow.   More...
-- Inspired by sadness: the art of Chath Piersath, by Dan Poynton, ©2007 Phnom Penh Post

For Chath pierSath, a community social psychologist who started painting less than two years ago, art is a way to reflect the inner turmoil of Cambodians, he said. In his portraits, faces are devoid of expression, as if numb with the pain accumulated over decades of fear and poverty. Out of thick layers of colors, they emerge in stillness, showing neither anger nor despair.   More...
-- Beyond Two-Dimensions, by Michelle Vachon, ©2004 The Cambodia Daily

"AIDS IS BIG and spreading, and I worry that it will become the second killing fields in my country," says Chath pierSath, a soft-spoken Cambodian poet-artist whose solo exhibition at the 'Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand this month heralds the World Aids Conference in Bangkok.   More...
-- AIDS AND ART, by Lekha J Shankar, ©2004 The Nation (Bangkok)

In Chath pierSath's paintings, people's faces appear out of whirls of colors, as if their buried sorrows were struggling to emerge. Portraits imply secret pain and memories of hardship but, in most cases, without conveying hostility or despair, as if people were reconciled to their past and present.   More...
-- From The Heart, by Michelle Vachon, ©2003 The Cambodia Daily

The emergence of writers like Chath pierSath is heartening to Lowell poet Paul Marion, who, in addition to his anthology of Kerouac's unpublished work, has edited and published a collection of Franco-American writings called French Class, runs the Loom Press, and tries to promote the area's literary culture.   More...
-- The muse returns to the Merrimack, by Neil Miller, ©2000 Boston Globe

...The refined colours, rather subdued but with acute light which awaken the painting, play on the tones which convey a great sense of the light and its clearness, or on the opposite a predilection for effect with natural pigmentation. The stroke is freely sinuous and ductile. The whole can be noticed for its powerful capacity to address to the viewer whom cannot stay numb to the affective charge of the paintings, their natural and their strong expressiveness.
-- Henry-Claude Cousseau, director ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Paris