Aung Myint

A self-taught artist, Aunt Myint works mainly with oil. He has also worked on installations, performance and collaborative paintings with The Weather Report artists. Very much in the forefront of the contemporary art movement in Yangon, he travels whenever possible to gain further knowledge of developments in international art. He has been exhibiting since the mid- 1960’s (in more than fifty local exhibitions) and is the founder of the Inya Gallery.

His solo shows in 1996 and 2000 featured paintings and installations that talk about his personal isolation and about processes of deterioration and growth. He has exhibited in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan.

Born 1946, Yangon, Myanmar.

EXHIBITIONS

1994   

First one Man Show, The Inya Gallery of Art, Yangon, Myanmar

1995 

'OMINIBUS', Gallery Voice, Kyoto, Japan

1995 

'Beginning N End', First Performance, Yangon, Myanmar

1996 

'New Paintings from Myanmar', Art-2 Gallery, Singapore

1996 

Second One Man Show, Judson Church Centre, Yangon, Myanmar

1996 

'Taipei International Art Fair', curated by Art-2 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1997 

'Beginning N End (2), Second Performance', Yangon, Myanmar

1997 

“Three men feature - Aung Myint, Ye Myint, Hasan Zokifly”, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore

1997  

ASEAN Master works Exhibition- ASEAN Leaders Summit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1997 

Third One Man Show, Grasenstein, Germany

1998   

FRINGE FESTIVAL SINGAPORE FESTIVAL OF ARTS

1998 BICARA-DIALOGUE-ZAGHATA (identity/anonymity),

CHIMES Gallery, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore

1998 

"ASEAN Master Works Exhibition”, National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1998  

"IMAGING SELVES”, Permanent Collection show, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

1998 

“OCT ART EXHIBITION”, The Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Holland

1998  

Philip Morris Group of Companies Asean Art Awards, Vietnam

1999 

The 6th Nippon International Performance Art Festival Tokyo, Nangano, Matsumoto, Nagoya, Japan

1999

“ASIAN WIND”, Fourth One Man Show, Shinseido Hatanaka INC. Tokyo, Japan

1999

“VOLUME AND FORM”, curated by Art-2 Gallery, Singapore.

1999

“CAMEL Art Show”, London, UK

1999 

"Three Men Feature - Iskandar Jalil, Aung Myint, Tisna Sanjaya”, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore

1999 

“Oriental Curtain”, Gallerie Cologne, Germany, coordinated by Jay Koh, arting +IFMA

1999 

The 2nd Asian Topia Performance Art Festival Bangkok, Thailand.

1999 

Fifth One Man Show, Mr Guitar Gallery, Yangon, Singapore

2000 

Performance Show (Life) Chaungtha, Pathein, Myanmar.

2000 

Asian Performance Art Festival, Macau

2000 

Action revolution performance, Hong Kong

2000 

Nippon International Performance Art Festival, Nagoya, Nagano, Tokyo, Japan, The 5th Performance Art Series+Series+Shinshu Summer,Seminar

2001 

The 8th Nippon International Performance Art Festival, "NIPAF"01 MYANMAR Performance Art Festival, Yangon, Myanmar

2001

"Orient Curtain", "Varcaus Art Museum, Varcaus, Finland

2001

"The End of Growth" Art Exhibition, sponsored by Heinrich Boell Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand

2001  

Sixth One Man Show, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar

2001  

"Time - the Watch has no numbers", Art-2 Gallery, Singapore

2001 

Performance Show: "Blind, Deaf & Dump", Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar

2002 

Philip Morris Group of Companies, Myanmar Art Awards Exhibition I.B.C, Yangon, Myanmar - (won Jurors's choice award)

2002 

Juror's choice award (ASEAN Art Award), Indonesia, Bali

2002 

“2 a.m, Solo Exhibition”, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore

2002 

“9 a.m. Solo Exhibition”, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, USA

2002 

Fourth ASIAN TOPIA Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand

2003 

Asian Cultural Council/The Rockefeller Foundation, Second Forum on Arts & Culture in the Mekong Region, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia

2003 

One Man Show, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong, March

2003 

Second Forum on Art and Culture in the Mekong Region, Asian Cultural Council, The Rockefeller Foundation, Phnom Pehn-Siem Reap, Cambodia

2004  

Peintres Contemporains Birmains, Alliance Francais, Yangon

2004 

Cross/Knotting group exhibition, Nordbahnhof, Berlin, Germany Group Show, Painting Gallery, New York,     USA

2005 

10^th NIPAF-Shinshu Performance Art Summer Seminar, Nagano, Japan

2005 

Tsunami Fundraising Charity Exhibition-Auction, American Center, Yangon

2005 

Lokanat Galleries, Yangon (solo)

2005 

Myanmar-Nippon Art Exchange, Japan