Born in 1946 in Yangon, Myanmar
Lives and works in Yangon, Myanmar
Karin Weber Gallery artist Aung Myint is Myanmar-based abstract artist well known for his mother and child inspired motifs presented in acrylic on canvas.
A pioneer of the Rangoon Modernist Art Movement, Aung Myint, born in 1946, has been painting in a distinct semi–abstract style since the early 1970s. The artist’s paintings have always been spontaneous reactions to the canvas and have emphasized three elements: dimension, line and colour. And these are the essentials by which he infuses the subconscious or 「unconscious emotional value,」 (as the artist likes to say) 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.
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Aung MyintBorn in 1946 in Yangon, Myanmar Karin Weber Gallery artist Aung Myint is Myanmar-based abstract artist well known for his mother and child inspired motifs presented in acrylic on canvas.
Although a student of Kin Maung Yin, 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, National Gallery Singapore, and Macau Performance Arts Museum.
Exhibitions (selected) 2022 ‘AUNG MYINT: A NEW ERA, 1995 – 2021’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong 2019 ‘20/20’, Karin Weber Gallery anniversary exhibition, HK 2015 ‘Masters of Myanmar’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong 2013 ‘No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 2010 ‘Citizen Of The World’, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore ‘Art from Myanmar Today’, Osage Art Foundation, Singapore 2007 Solo exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong 2005 Myanmar-Nippon Art Exchange, Japan Solo exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon Tsunami Fundraising Charity Exhibition-Auction, American Center, Yangon 10th NIPAF-Shinshu Performance Art Summer Seminar, Nagano, Japan 2004 Crossing/Knotting group exhibition, Nordbahnhof, Berlin, Germany Group Show, Painting Gallery, New York, USA 2003 Second Forum on Art and Culture in the Mekong Region, Asian Cultural Council, The Rockefeller Foundation, Phnom Pehn-Siem Reap, Cambodia 2002 Solo exhibition, Art 2 Gallery, Singapore Solo exhibition, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, USA 4th Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand 2001 8th NIPAF-Myanmar Performance Art Festival, Yangon 2000 Life performance, Chaungtha-Pathein, Myanmar 1999 6th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF), 1998 Fringe Festival, Singapore Festival of the Arts 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 1996 New Paintings from Myanmar, The Substation, Singapore Solo exhibition, Judson Church Centre, Yangon Taipei International Art Fair, World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan 1995 Omnibus: Five Myanmar Artists group exhibition, Gallery Voice, Kyoto, Japan Beginning ‘n’ End, first performance, Yangon 1994 First solo exhibition, The Inya Gallery of Art, Yangon
Awards 2002 Juror’s choice award, Philip Morris Group of Companies Myanmar Juror’s choice award, ASEAN Art Awards, Bali, Indonesia Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York Singapore Art Museum The National Art Gallery, Malaysia Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan
Publication Andrew Ranard (2009). Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History. Silkworm Books
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