Burmese Artists | Nyein Chan Su
Nyein Chan Su (often called NCS) was born in 1973 in
Rangoon and studied at the State School of Fine Arts from
1994. He has participated in several shows inside
Burma as well as in Japan (1999), Hong Kong (1999) Singapore
(2000, 2001, 2002), Hong Kong (2004) and Thailand (2008,
2009).
His
participation in the 1999 Fukuoka Art Trienale in Japan
launched his international art career. He is equally
renowned as a painter as well as a performance artist and
for his video installations. A founding member of Yangon’s
Studio Square Art Gallery, Nyein Chan Su is widely regarded
as one of Myanmar’s most promising mid career artists. In
2001, he received a Certificate of Recognition from the
ASEAN Art Awards and in 2004
he was
the second prize winner of the Myanmar Contemporary Art
Awards. Nyein Chan Su’s artworks are in the permanent
collections of the Singapore Art Museum,
and the
Fukuoka Art Museum.
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