Artist List

Aung Myint.

Aung Myint was born in Yangon in 1946. He lived in Hintada in delta region in his childhood. In 1963 he came back to Yangon meanwhile he passed the matriculation standard in the same year and joined the Rangoon University. He got the bachelor degree in Psychology in 1968. Since 1970, in the middle of Myanmar Modern age, he participated subsequently in the modern art movements with his friends such as San Myint, Aung Aung Taik and Khin One. His first group show was at Alliance Francis’ in 1971. At that period, he mainly painted Cubism. After 1980, he started interested in Abstract Expression and was recognized as the solid AbEx on Myanmar art in the period of 1980-1990. In 1989, he founded Inya gallery, which was the first Myanmar Modern art gallery together with San Minn, Kyi Myint Saw, Aung Kyaw Moe, and Teeto. The Inya gallery is still alive and it developed and promoted new generation of Myanmar Modern art. Since 1990, the art movements he activated became very important movements of Myanmar conceptual art as well. In 1996, he made an exhibition with his conceptual artworks at Judson Hall, and such artworks as “Egoist”, an installation and “Life” performance became very famous. However, after 1996, he gave all the isms away, which he accepted and worked with for over ten years. He decreases his automatism strokes, colors and instead of these, he replaced with traditional line drawing. Later, he only used black and white colors, as he was afraid of colors. After such kind of artistic self-alternation, he made a series symbolizing the form of “Mother and child” with only one single line on the “”paper. “Homage to Mother”, a painting of the “Mother and child series”, awarded at Asean art exhibition in 2002. And, this series was defined as his masterpiece, which has totally no relevance with western and eastern techniques of isms. Moreover, he created clay sculptors, ceramics sculptors, wood sculptors and sand sculptors. He has already exhibited over sixty local and international art shows. He made performance art works in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Macau, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Netherlands, London, Germany, Finland and the USA.

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Aung Aung Taik.

Born in Rangoon, Burma in 1948, the Burmese Artist Aung Aung Taik, received the traditional boarding school education of his class ,after which he decided not to follow his father’s footsteps and enter medical school ,but to studying painting .He attended The State Academy of Art in Rangoon and took private lessons from two of Burma’s leading artists, U Ba Kyi and U Ngwe Gaing. Afterward, he accompanied his mentors, the writers Ludu U Hla and Daw Ahmar on a number of anthropological expeditions into the remote regions of Burma .Aung Aung Taik illustrated a series of books published by Ludu U Hla .Successful exhibitions of his work in Burma and Japan followed. Dissatisfied with stagnation in the fine art and seeking greater artistic autonomy , Aung Aung Taik left Burma and came to The United State in 1972 and continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute .A series of exhibitions led to his first one-man show at the Mission Cultural Center in 1981,where Tom Albright commented in the San Francisco Chronicle that Aung Aung ‘s paintings ‘’….suggest of the strange stage sets of Francis Bacon carried to a greater degree of abstraction…’’ .
Intense engagement with the diversity of cultural life in the San Francisco of the 80’s led him to a mastery of the English language and the desire to express some of his understanding in poetry and prose. Visions of Shewdagon (1989), an autobiographical novel followed, and with it a renewed interest in the Theravada tradition of the Buddhism native to the homeland. Aung Aung extended his grasp of the unique viewpoint with a series of sculptural representations of the Buddha and the essay, “A View from the Lower Life’’ (1992).In a further celebration of the traditions of his homeland, he published his Under the Golden Pagoda (1993) with Chronicle Books , reclaiming Burma’s rich cuisine as an integral part of his San Francisco life. Aung Aung Taik became an American citizen in1994.
In 2001, Aung Aung Taik ,one of the pioneer modern artists of Burma ,returned to his beloved country to paint , and have his first solo exhibition there after 30 years in America.
Since then, Aung Aung Taik has been visiting Burma annually having one man shows and group shows in Rangoon and Mandalay. He conducted art workshops and a forum at Htanyeiknyo Art Center in Mandalay.Aung Aung Taik is also a member of a group of modern artists called the New Zero Art Group, which was founded in February 2008.
He has already participated over 70 group and solo exhibitions in art and poetry Reading. His first foreign art exhibition was “Expo 70’” Osaka Trade Fair in Japan in 1970. His first one-man show was at Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco in 1981. In 1985, 1992 and 1996, he had his solo shows around the USA. In 2001, he had solo shows in Yangon and Mandalay in Myanmar. His recent solo show was at the Fresno Art Museum in 2009. He was also chosen amongst eight poets to read at the first ever Poetry Day of San Francisco in 1986. At the yearly National Poetry Week festivals, he represented Myanmar for several times. He also made solo poetry reading at the International Institute of San Francisco in 1991and at the Mr. Guitar Café in 2001. He is also the Founder of FOMA (Friends of Myanmar Art).

Painting
Old Sculptors
Fish, Bone and Tower Sculptors

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Aye Ko.

date of birth	: 7 august 1963
place of birth	: Pathein, Myanmar.
nationality	: Myanmar.
address	: No.227,29th street, Pabedan township, Yangon, Myanmar.
phone number	: 95-1-705736,95-1-376249,95-1- 375250, 959-5000802.
e-mail	: ayekoart@myanmar.com.mm   ayekoart@gmail.com
He was born in Pathein in 1963. After 1988, he arrived and entered into Yangon art society. He was one of the post Modern art generations in Myanmar. In 1990, he organized “Modern Art 90” art exhibition and participated in that. Aye Ko made impression paintings as his early art works. Through contact with Yangon based Modern artists such as Maung D and Aung Myint, he also started working with abstractions. In 1994, he founded “Olive” gallery. After 1996, he interested in postmodern ideas and he practiced performance art. In 1999, he participated in second Asia topia International Performance Art festiva l in Bangkok in Thailand. Afterwards, he subsequent ly made performance works in Hong Kong, Macau, Cambodia, Germany, Indonesia, japan and New York and renowned internationally as a Myanmar performance Artist. After 2000, he has practiced multimedia art andnew art and participated in the activities of “New Zero Art Group”, which transformed from “Modern art 90”in the leading role. In 2001, he made a performance piece at Asian performance Art Festival in New Yor, which was the greatest art festival among his art exhibitions.In 2005, Asian Cultural Council awarded him the 3 months art residency in New York in USA. Moreover, ACC granted him to study art galleries in Indonesia and China. After his gallery visits in Indonesia in 2007, he decided to establishe an art space as he realized that artists have to unite in order to go to international art world. Therefore, in 2008, he established New Zero Art Space in order to promote young generation and to promote Myanmar contemporary art. He has already participated in over 25 foreign group exhibitions from 1999 to 2009. Besides these, he locally participated in over 50 group shows in Myanmar. He made his third solo show at “88 gallery” in New York, USA. His recent sixth solo show was the Lawkanat gallery in Yangon, Myanmar. As the executive director of New Zero Art space, he is leading the Myanmar contemporary art movements such as international exchange programs and artist in residency program. He is an art critica and a writer as well. According to his admiration in reading, he founded a media group, which has been publishing two monthly magazines, “Fashion”, fashion and beauty magazine and “Hlaing Thit”, art and literature magazine. In 2008, he directed a VCD. His art works are collected in the USA, Germany, Italy, Singapore, japan, Malaysia, Beljium, Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, and in Myanmar.
Painting               Performance               Installation

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Aung Myat Htay.

address	: NNo. 82 , Room 404, Zayar Thiri Street, Hledan , Kamayut Tsp, Yangon,   Myanmar.
e-mail	: amyathtay@gmail.com   www.aungmyathtay.com
He was born in Mandalay in 1973. He studied art at the State School of Art, Mandalay and graduated in 1994. Four years later, he finished B.A in Fine Art from the University of Culture in 1998. He selected as a participant at Asia Youth art program called NATURE HUG Art Camp, in Philipines. Because of his interest in the beauty of female figures, he used to work on the relationship between the rythms of colors and strokes. Before 2000, he only concentrated at paintings and his favourite art medium is watercolor. He has participated in several art exhibitions in 1993-2008. In 2005, he celebrated his fifth solo watercolor paintings at Studio Square in Yangon. During the previous years, he began interested in New Media art and now he is working with graphic design, photography, installation and performance art. In 2008, his created a site-specific installation at New Zero Art Space. In 2009, he participated in Asean Comtemporary Art Exchange and Myanmar Nippon Performance Art Exchange. His selected performance pieces are “Empty Bag” and “Fake Eye” which seemed to be dramatic approach with his ideology of human nature and life. As an art writer, he has already Released four art books, Basic Art Drawing Book (in Myanmar) 2002, Watercolour Painting (2004), Art Notes (2007) and Collection of all sketches of Vangogh (2008) Book Published by Sait Ku Cho Cho Publishing House.
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Performance             Installation

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Artists List

• Aung Myint
• Aung Aung Taik
• Aye Ko
• Aung Myat Htay
• Aung Khin Myint
• U Ba Win
• CNK (Chan Nyein Kyaw)
• Hein Thit
• Htoo Aung Kyaw
• Ko Ko Naing
• Kaung Su
• Kyu Kyu
• Bagyi Lynn Wunna
• Maung Moe
• May Moe Thu
• Myo Min Zaw
• Nan Nan
• NCS (Nyein Chan Su)
• Set Aung T.T
• The Maw Naing
• Thar Gyi
• Tartie
• Ko Thu Tha
• Thu Rein
• Zar Min Htike
• Zay Phyo
• Zun Pwint Thu
• Zoncy
• New Zero Next Generation

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