Mr. NHIK DEUM was born February 12, 1934 in a remote area, close together to a small river, in Reap village, Reap commune, Pearaing district, Prey Veng province, into a well-heeled husbandry relatives. His male parent was NHIK PIDOR and his mother was PRUM POUL. Mr. NHIK DEUM has 7 siblings.
His too first childhood did not really be a focus for the common people attention, until he was about ten eld old, once the striking of the Second World War steered Cambodia into a avaricious involvement linking Japan and France. At that time, Cambodians, as cured as NHIK DEUM himself did not savour day-after-day coaching. Fortunately, NHIK DEUM spent simple arts school in 1949. Due to wonder and unlearned aptitude, NHIK DEUM distinct to locomote to Phnom Penh to creative person the art of drawing at Khemarak School of Fine Arts (currently Royal School of Fine Arts), as per the letter from his male parent and the archimandrite Sok, from Wat Saravoan Dechau. "Wat" is the Cambodian possession for temple or temple, wherever Buddhist monks settle and Buddha statues are keep. Wat is the hallowed pop for Cambodian Buddhist hoi polloi.