Thavibu Gallery | Contemporary Art from Thailand, Vietnam and Burma
Myanmar [Burmese] Artists | Chaw Ei Thein
Chaw Ei Thein was born in
Rangoon in 1969 and graduated from
Yangon
University with a Bachelor of Law degree in 1994. Her
artistic recognition started at an early age through the
numerous international art awards that she received. With
her father, Maung Maung Thein, as her art teacher and
mentor, Chaw's art practice has developed
into a diverse art practice. Highly regarded as a painter
and a conceptual as well as a performance artist, her
international career is highly profiled as she candidly
portrays the contradictions and conflictions of her
socio-political environment. Her feminist approach to her
art is both gracious and candid and has earned her accolades
and recognition as one of the most important contemporary
artists to emerge from Myanmar. The recipient of the Elizabeth
J McCormack and Jerome I Aaron fellowship in connection with
the Asian Cultural Council in New York, she has lectured and
exhibited extensively in and outside of Myanmar. Amongst her
numerous and most notable achievements include participation
in the 2008 Singapore Biennial, 2009 Open Studios
Exhibitions,International Studio and
Curators Program in New York as well as several performance
works together with Htein Lin in Myanmar and at Asia House,
London in 2007. Chaw Ei Thein currently lives and works in
New York.
