Burmese Artists | Aung Myint
Aung Myint was born in 1946 in Rangoon and
is considered
a pioneer in experimental art. As one of the founding
members of Rangoon’s
Inya Art Gallery in 1989, Aung Myint distanced his art from
the traditional romanticism and instead chose to address the
multitude of social and critical issues through his
multi-disciplinary artistic practice that include
performance and installation art. However, he is best known
for ongoing “Mother and Child” series – a subtle but
critical interplay between his own personal emotive and his
social parameters. A self taught artist, Aung Myint has
participated in numerous exhibitions and performance art
projects internationally as well as in
Burma.
His works are in the permanent art collection of the
National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Singapore Art Museum,
and the
Fukuoka
Asian
Art Museum. Aung Myint has staged more than sixty shows in Burma and several in foreign countries such as Japan (1995, 1999, 2000), Singapore (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001), Taiwan (1996), Malaysia (1997, 1998), Germany (1997, 1999), Netherlands (1998), Vietnam (1998), Great Britain (1999), Thailand (1999, 2001), Macau (2000), Hong Kong (2000), and Finland (2001). Aung Myint was the first Burmese artist to win a prize from the ASEAN Art Awards, in 2002 with a set of nine paintings from his Mother and Child series.
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