He graduated from the Royal University of Fine Arts in 1973, and left Cambodia prior to the Khmer Rouge evacuation of Phnom Penh.
[1] You Khin returned to Cambodia in 2003 with his wife Muoy where they founded a Montessori school for disadvantaged children and a guesthouse to help support it.
[2] His mixed media paintings are of the impressionist style and have been exhibited in the US,[3][4][5][6][7] Sudan,[8] the UK[8] and Cambodia.
[8] You Khin went on to study Interior Architecture in Phnom Penh, followed by a focus on 3D art in Marseilles.
[1] The artist communicated sentiment related to the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia during his time in exile.