A native of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aragna Ker was born in 1974. He immigrated to Southern California in 1981, at the age of six. After graduating high school in Los Angeles, Ker relocated to attend San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a BFA in Painting in 1999. In 2004, he recieved his MFA in Sculpture at Claremont Graduate University. Essential experiences serves as springboard for Ker’s methodology. His playful works fuse cultural symbols and myth to explore the vast range of hybrid identities. His drawings and sculptures utilize the potency of motive to curiously attack simplistic materials in order to exploit them beyond their ordinary function. The United States Embassy in Cambodia, The Hammer Museum, The Pacific Asian Art Museum, Happy Lion Gallery and Sabina Lee Gallery are just some of the Instititions that he has exhibited in. Aragna Ker is currently employed as an Art Instructor at First Street Gallery Art Center in Claremont, providing artistic instruction to adults with disabilities.