Burmese Artists | Aung Kyaw Htet
Aung Kyaw Htet was born in 1965 in Myaungmya and studied at the State School of Fine Arts in Rangoon. He is a devout Buddhist and grew up in a small village -- two factors which have a strong influence on his art. Information about Buddhism in Burma can be found at dhammaweb.net.
Over the past decade, Aung
Kyaw Htet has quietly produced some of the most coherent,
nuanced and resonant bodies of art works from Burma. While
his depictions of novice monks and nuns may unleash
questions about the slippery social environment of Burma and
the role of romanticism under such conditions; he instead
mobilises a reserved and ordered look into the inquiry of
social isolation and spiritual identity with a contemporary
emotional mannerism that represents these subjects as
irredeemably human. Aung Kyaw Htet’s aesthetic is reservedly
authored as his work explores an artistic intellectualism
where composition and narrative are pitched together. He has
participated in several exhibitions internationally such as
in Thailand (2002, 2004, 2005, 2008), Singapore (2003, 2008)
Hong Kong (2003, 2004), Taiwan (2006), India (2009),
Dubai (2009), and Monaco (2010). His
paintings are in the museum collections of the National
Museum of Burma and the National Art Gallery of Malaysia.
Gallery 1 | 2 Book:
Aung Kyaw Htet - Myanmar Inspirations
