Aung MYINT

Overview
Aung MYINT
Aung Myint, born in 1946 in Myanmar, is a seminal figure in the Rangoon Modernist Art Movement. Since the early 1970s, he has developed a distinctive semi-abstract style characterized by spontaneity and a focus on dimension, line, and color. His work often revisits the motif of mother and child, a deeply personal subject due to the loss of his mother at a young age. Though academically trained in Psychology, Aung Myint is a self-taught artist whose practice also includes installation and performance art. His works are held in prestigious collections worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, National Gallery Singapore, and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. He continues to live and work in Myanmar, contributing significantly to the contemporary art scene.
Exhibitions
Biography
Aung MYINT

Solo Exhibitions
2024
‘Dots. Lines. Crosses.’, organised by THEO Art Projects, The Arts House, Singapore
2023
‘Zero to Infinity’, Solo exhibition, Myanmar Ahla Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
‘Mother & Child in New Era’, Sculpture Exhibition, The Sea Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2022
‘AUNG MYINT: A NEW ERA, 1995 – 2021’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
Birthday Solo Exhibition, The Sea Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2019
17 Am @ KALASA Solo Exhibition, KALASA Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar
2017
16 A.M (Expectation – Exhibition), Myan/Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2015
15 A.M 10N Art 10N Orchard, Singapore
2014
14 A.M TS:1 Yangon, Myanmar
2011
Installation Show, ‘Just Now’, New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar
2010
‘Citizen Of The World’, Yavuz Fine Art, Singapore
‘Art from Myanmar Today’, Osage Art Foundation, Singapore
2007
Solo exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2005
Solo Exhibition, Lawkanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
2003
Solo exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2002
Solo exhibition, Art2 Gallery, Singapore
Solo exhibition, paintings and performance, Kenteler International Drawing Space, New York, USA
2001
Solo exhibition, Lawkanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
1999
Solo exhibition, Asian Wind, Shinseido Hatanaka, Tokyo, Japan
Solo exhibition, wMr Guitar Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
1997
Solo exhibition, Grasenstein, Germany
1996
Solo exhibition, Judson Church Centre, Yangon, Myanmar
1994
First Solo exhibition, The Inya Gallery of Art, Yangon, Myanmar

 

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
‘Against the Tide: Myanmar Art in the Moment’, Karin Weber Gallery. London, UK
2023
‘Myanmar: Faces & Figures’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2021
‘Myanmar Voices’: We Are Still Here’, Online exhibition, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
2019
‘20/20’, Karin Weber Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, HK
2018
‘SAY’, Suvannabhumi Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2015
‘Masters of Myanmar’, Karin Weber Gallery, HK
National Gallery Singapore
2013
‘No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2005
Myanmar-Nippon Art Exchange, Japan Solo Exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
Tsunami Fundraising Charity Exhibition – Auction, American Center, Yangon, Myanmar
10th NIPAF-Shinshu Performance Art Summer Seminar, Nagano, Japan
2004
‘Crossing/Knotting’ group exhibition, Nordbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, Painting Gallery, New York, USA‘Peintres Contemporains Birmains’, Alliance Francais, Yangon, Myanmar
2003
Second Forum on Art and Culture in the Mekong Region, Asian Cultural Council,
The Rockefeller Foundation, Phnom Pehn-Siem Reap, Cambodia
2002
4th Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2001
8th NIPAF-Myanmar Performance Art Festival, Yangon, Myanmar‘Oriental Curtain’ group exhibition, Varkaus Art Museum, Finland‘The End of Growth’ group exhibition, Heinrich Boll Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand‘Time: The Watch Has No Numbers’ group exhibition, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
2000
Live performance, Chaungtha-Pathein, MyanmarAsian Performance Art festival, Macau
Three artist exhibition, The Substation, Singapore
1999
6th Nippon International Performance Art Festival (NIPAF), Tokyo-Nagano-Matsumoto-to-Nagoya, Japan
Form and Volume group exhibition, SingaporeFive Continents: The Brass Gong and I performance, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, MyanmarCamel group exhibition, London, UKIskadar Jill-Aung Myint-Tisna Sajaya three artist exhibition, The Substation, SingaporeOriental Curtain group exhibition, Galerie On, Cologne, Germany2nd Asian Topia Performance Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
1998
Fringe Festival, Singapore Festival of the Arts, SingaporeASEAN Masterworks, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaImaging Selves: Permanent Collection Show, The National Art Museum of SingaporeGroup exhibition, Royal Tropics Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995
‘Omnibus: Five Myanmar Artists’ group exhibition, Gallery Voice, Kyoto, Japan
‘Beginning ‘n’ End, first performance, Yangon, Myanmar

 
Awards
2002
Juror’s choice award, Philip Morris Group of Companies, Myanmar
Juror’s choice award, ASEAN Art Awards, Bali, Indonesia
 

Publication
Ian Holliday & Aung Kaung Myat (2021), Painting Myanmar’s Tradition, Hong Kong University Press
Andrew Ranard (2009). Burmese Painting: A Linear and Lateral History. Silkworm Books
 
Public Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Singapore Art Museum
The National Arts Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan