Karin Weber Gallery

Aung Myint

Mother & Child (I)

Aung Myint

Mother & Child (II)

Aung Myint

Mother & Child (III)

Aung Myint

Untitled

Aung Myint

Mother and Child

Aung Myint

Mother & Child 1

Aung Myint

Mother & Child 2

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Mother & Child 3

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Mother & Child 4

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Mother & Child

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One’s drawing

Aung Myint

Ab: Ex

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Noisy

Aung Myint

Whose ! (Fear)

Aung Myint

The Curves

Aung Myint

Brown Expression

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The Red are in the “Net”

Aung Myint

The Blue

Aung Myint

Move

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Mother and Child

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Wrongly

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The Truth is Truth

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Mother & Child 2

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Mother & Child 1

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Aung Myint Myanmar (Burma)

Born 1946, Myanmar
Currently lives and works in Myanmar

Aung Myint, born in 1946, has been painting in a distinct semi–abstract style since the early 1970s. He is considered a pioneer of the Rangoon Modernist Art Movement The artist’s paintings have always been spontaneous reactions to the canvas and have emphasized three elements: dimension, line and colour. To him, these are the essentials by which he infuses subconscious or unconscious emotional value into his works.

Mother and child motifs are a subject matter the artist revisits time and again and which hold special meaning: Aung Myint lost his mother at the tender age of four. His artistic practice also extends to installation and performance art.

Academically a Psychology graduate, Aung Myint is essentially a self-taught artist. His early supporters, diplomats at American and British consulates in Yangon, ensured he had a steady stream of art supplies. Today, the artist’s works can be found at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, National Gallery Singapore, National Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, and the Macau Performance Arts Museum.

Born 1946, Myanmar
Currently lives and works in Myanmar

Aung Myint, born in 1946, has been painting in a distinct semi–abstract style since the early 1970s. He is considered a pioneer of the Rangoon Modernist Art Movement The artist’s paintings have always been spontaneous reactions to the canvas and have emphasized three elements: dimension, line and colour. To him, these are the essentials by which he infuses subconscious or unconscious emotional value into his works.

Mother and child motifs are a subject matter the artist revisits time and again and which hold special meaning: Aung Myint lost his mother at the tender age of four. His artistic practice also extends to installation and performance art.

Academically a Psychology graduate, Aung Myint is essentially a self-taught artist. His early supporters, diplomats at American and British consulates in Yangon, ensured he had a steady stream of art supplies. Today, the artist’s works can be found at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, National Gallery Singapore, National Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, and the Macau Performance Arts Museum.

 

Solo Exhibitions
2024
‘Dots. Lines. Crosses.’, organised by THEO Art Projects, The Arts House, Singapore
2023
‘Zero to Infinity’, Solo exhibition, Myanmar Ahla Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
‘Mother & Child in New Era’, Sculpture Exhibition, The Sea Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2022
‘AUNG MYINT: A NEW ERA, 1995 – 2021’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
Birthday Solo Exhibition, The Sea Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2019
17 Am @ KALASA Solo Exhibition, KALASA Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar
2017
16 A.M (Expectation – Exhibition), Myan/Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2015
15 A.M 10N Art 10N Orchard, Singapore
2014
14 A.M TS:1 Yangon, Myanmar
2011
Installation Show, ‘Just Now’, New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar
2010
‘Citizen Of The World’, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore
‘Art from Myanmar Today’, Osage Art Foundation, Singapore
2007
Solo exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2005
Solo Exhibition, Lawkanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
2003
Solo exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2002
Solo exhibition, Art2 Gallery, Singapore
Solo exhibition, paintings and performance, Kenteler International Drawing Space, New York, USA
2001
Solo exhibition, Lawkanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
1999
Solo exhibition, Asian Wind, Shinseido Hatanaka, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition, wMr Guitar Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
1997
Solo exhibition, Grasenstein, Germany
1996
Solo exhibition, Judson Church Centre, Yangon, Myanmar
1994
First Solo exhibition, The Inya Gallery of Art, Yangon, Myanmar

 

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
‘Against the Tide: Myanmar Art in the Moment’, Karin Weber Gallery. London, UK
2023
‘Myanmar: Faces & Figures’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2021
‘Myanmar Voices’: We Are Still Here’, Online exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2019
‘20/20’, Karin Weber Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, HK
2018
‘SAY’, Suvannabhumi Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2015
‘Masters of Myanmar’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
National Gallery Singapore
2013
‘No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2005
Myanmar-Nippon Art Exchange, Japan Solo Exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
Tsunami Fundraising Charity Exhibition – Auction, American Center, Yangon, Myanmar
10th NIPAF-Shinshu Performance Art Summer Seminar, Nagano, Japan
2004
‘Crossing/Knotting’ group exhibition, Nordbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, Painting Gallery, New York, USA
‘Peintres Contemporains Birmains’, Alliance Francais, Yangon, Myanmar
2003
Second Forum on Art and Culture in the Mekong Region, Asian Cultural Council,
The Rockefeller Foundation, Phnom Pehn-Siem Reap, Cambodia
2002
4th Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2001
8th NIPAF-Myanmar Performance Art Festival, Yangon, Myanmar
‘Oriental Curtain’ group exhibition, Varkaus Art Museum, Finland
‘The End of Growth’ group exhibition, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
‘Time: The Watch Has No Numbers’ group exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
2000
Live performance, Chaungtha-Pathein, Myanmar
Asian Performance Art festival, Macau
Three artist exhibition, The Substation, Singapore
1999
6th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF), Tokyo-Nagano-Matsumoto-to-Nagoya, Japan
Form and Volume group exhibition, Singapore
Five Continents: The Brass Gong and I performance, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
Camel group exhibition, London, UK
Iskadar Jill-Aung Myint-Tisna Sajaya three artist exhibition, The Substation, Singapore
Oriental Curtain group exhibition, Galerie On, Cologne, Germany
2nd Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
1998
Fringe Festival, Singapore Festival of the Arts, Singapore
ASEAN Masterworks, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Imaging Selves: Permanent Collection Show, The National Art Museum of Singapore
Group exhibition, Royal Tropics Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995
‘Omnibus: Five Myanmar Artists’ group exhibition, Gallery Voice, Kyoto, Japan
‘Beginning ‘n’ End, first performance, Yangon, Myanmar

 
Awards
2002
Juror’s choice award, Philip Morris Group of Companies, Myanmar
Juror’s choice award, ASEAN Art Awards, Bali, Indonesia
 

Publication
Ian Holliday & Aung Kaung Myat (2021), Painting Myanmar’s Tradition, Hong Kong University Press
Andrew Ranard (2009). Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History. Silkworm Books
 
Public Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Singapore Art Museum
The National Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan

Exhibitions

Against the Tide: Myanmar Art in the Moment

Myanmar: Faces and Figures

Aung Myint: A New Era, 1995 - 2021

'Masters of Myanmar:'
New Works by Aung Myint and Min Wae Aung