Aung MyintBurma
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Born 27 October 1946 Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma)
Professional artist, self-taught. Principal founder of The Inya Gallery
of Art, Yangon (1989). Has exhibited since the 1960s; performances since
1995. Has participated in over sixty local and international group
exhibitions.
1994 First solo exhibition, The Inya Gallery of Art, Yangon
1995 Omnibus: Five Myanmar Artists group exhibition, Gallery Voice,
Kyoto, Japan
Beginning 'n' End, first performance, Yangon
1996 New Paintings from Myanmar, The Substation, Singapore
Solo exhibition, Judson Church Centre, Yangon
Taipei International Art Fair, World Trade Center, Taipei,
Taiwan
1997 Beginning 'n' End 2, performance, Yangon
Aung Myint-Ye Myint-Hasan Zolikfly three artist show, Art 2,
Singapore
ASEAN Masterworks, ASEAN Leaders Summit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Solo exhibition, Grasenstein, Germany
1998 Fringe Festival, Singapore Festival of the Arts
ASEAN Masterworks, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Imaging Selves: Permanent Collection Show, The National Art
Museum of Singapore
Group exhibition, Royal Tropics Institute, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Awards, Saigon,
Vietnam
1999 6th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF),
Tokyo-Nagano-Matsumoto-Nagoya, Japan
Asian Wind solo exhibition, Shinseido Hatanaka, Tokyo, Japan
Form and Volume group exhibition, Singapore
Five Continents: The Brass Gong and I performance, Lokanat
Galleries, Yangon
Camel group exhibition, London
Iskadar Jill-Aung Myint-Tisna Sajaya three artist exhibition,
The Substation, Singapore
Oriental Curtain group exhibition, Galerie On, Koln, Germany
2nd Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
Solo exhibition, Mr Guitar, Yangon
2000 Life performance, Chaungtha-Pathein, Myanmar
Asian Performance Art festival, Macau
Three artist exhibition, The Substation, Singapore
2001 8th NIPAF-Myanmar Performance Art Festival, Yangon
Oriental Curtain group exhibition, Varcaus Art Museum,
Helsinki, Finland
The end of Growth group exhibition, Heinrich Boll Foundation,
Bangkok, Thailand
Solo exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon
Time: The Watch Has No Numbers group exhibition, Lokanat
Galleries, Yangon
2002 Juror's choice award, Philip Morris Group of Companies Myanmar
Art Awards,International Business Centre, Yangon
Juror's choice award, ASEAN Art Awards, Bali, Indonesia
Solo exhibition, Art 2 Gallery, Singapore
Solo exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Space, New
York, USA
4th Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2003 Second Forum on Art and Culture in the Mekong Region, Asian
Cultural Council, The Rockefeller Foundation, Phnom Pehn-Siem Reap,
Cambodia
Solo exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2004 Crossing/Knotting group exhibition, Nordbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, Painting Gallery, New York, USA
Peintres Contemporains Birmains, Alliance Francais, Yangon
2005 Myanmar-Nippon Art Exchange, Japan
Solo exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon
Tsunami Fundraising Charity Exhibition-Auction, American
Center, Yangon
10th NIPAF-Shinshu Perfomance Art Summer Seminar, Nagano, Japan
Aung Myint's works are in the collections of The National Art Museum of
Singapore, Fukuoka Art Museum and the National Art Gallery of Malaysia;
as well as in private collections in Singapore, Japan, Thailand,
Germany, Netherlands, Hungary, Australia, USA and elsewhere.
Born 27 October 1946 Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar (Burma)Professional artist, self-taught. Principal founder of The Inya Gallery
of Art, Yangon (1989). Has exhibited since the 1960s; performances since
1995. Has participated in over sixty local and international group
exhibitions.
1994 First solo exhibition, The Inya Gallery of Art, Yangon
1995 Omnibus: Five Myanmar Artists group exhibition, Gallery Voice,
Kyoto, Japan
Beginning 'n' End, first performance, Yangon
1996 New Paintings from Myanmar, The Substation, Singapore
Solo exhibition, Judson Church Centre, Yangon
Taipei International Art Fair, World Trade Center, Taipei,
Taiwan
1997 Beginning 'n' End 2, performance, Yangon
Aung Myint-Ye Myint-Hasan Zolikfly three artist show, Art 2,
Singapore
ASEAN Masterworks, ASEAN Leaders Summit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Solo exhibition, Grasenstein, Germany
1998 Fringe Festival, Singapore Festival of the Arts
ASEAN Masterworks, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Imaging Selves: Permanent Collection Show, The National Art
Museum of Singapore
Group exhibition, Royal Tropics Institute, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Philip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Awards, Saigon,
Vietnam
1999 6th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF),
Tokyo-Nagano-Matsumoto-Nagoya, Japan
Asian Wind solo exhibition, Shinseido Hatanaka, Tokyo, Japan
Form and Volume group exhibition, Singapore
Five Continents: The Brass Gong and I performance, Lokanat
Galleries, Yangon
Camel group exhibition, London
Iskadar Jill-Aung Myint-Tisna Sajaya three artist exhibition,
The Substation, Singapore
Oriental Curtain group exhibition, Galerie On, Koln, Germany
2nd Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
Solo exhibition, Mr Guitar, Yangon
2000 Life performance, Chaungtha-Pathein, Myanmar
Asian Performance Art festival, Macau
Three artist exhibition, The Substation, Singapore
2001 8th NIPAF-Myanmar Performance Art Festival, Yangon
Oriental Curtain group exhibition, Varcaus Art Museum,
Helsinki, Finland
The end of Growth group exhibition, Heinrich Boll Foundation,
Bangkok, Thailand
Solo exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon
Time: The Watch Has No Numbers group exhibition, Lokanat
Galleries, Yangon
2002 Juror's choice award, Philip Morris Group of Companies Myanmar
Art Awards,International Business Centre, Yangon
Juror's choice award, ASEAN Art Awards, Bali, Indonesia
Solo exhibition, Art 2 Gallery, Singapore
Solo exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Space, New
York, USA
4th Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2003 Second Forum on Art and Culture in the Mekong Region, Asian
Cultural Council, The Rockefeller Foundation, Phnom Pehn-Siem Reap,
Cambodia
Solo exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2004 Crossing/Knotting group exhibition, Nordbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, Painting Gallery, New York, USA
Peintres Contemporains Birmains, Alliance Francais, Yangon
2005 Myanmar-Nippon Art Exchange, Japan
Solo exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon
Tsunami Fundraising Charity Exhibition-Auction, American
Center, Yangon
10th NIPAF-Shinshu Perfomance Art Summer Seminar, Nagano, Japan
Aung Myint's works are in the collections of The National Art Museum of
Singapore, Fukuoka Art Museum and the National Art Gallery of Malaysia;
as well as in private collections in Singapore, Japan, Thailand,
Germany, Netherlands, Hungary, Australia, USA and elsewhere.
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by Steven Pettifor (Asian Art News, Volume 19, No. 2, 2009)
His various monochromatic drawings of mother and child, reminiscent of the PIETA, are well known in Southeast Asia, with many examples in museums, and the national galleries of Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan. The works are skillfully made using a single flowing line that conveys the artists emotions and mood. These drawings are rooted in feelings of loss and abandonment from the death of his mother when the artist was an infant. The works also evoke the fluid line and form of works by such modernist masters as Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.
His various monochromatic drawings of mother and child, reminiscent of the PIETA, are well known in Southeast Asia, with many examples in museums, and the national galleries of Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan. The works are skillfully made using a single flowing line that conveys the artists emotions and mood. These drawings are rooted in feelings of loss and abandonment from the death of his mother when the artist was an infant. The works also evoke the fluid line and form of works by such modernist masters as Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.
