Aung, Min Wae Min Wae Aung was born in Danubyu, Burma in 1960. He studied at the State School of Fine Arts in the capital, Rangoon. Much of his work is in watercolour and acrylic.
His painting, 'Travellers' (1994) in Japan's Fukuoka Art Museum, marks a turning point in his career, when his work developed from traditional landscape painting to contemporary graphic and abstraction.
His work hangs in collections in USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and at the Westfries Museum, Hoorn in the Netherlands. In 1997, one of his paintings was exhibited in the ASEAN Masterworks exhibition at the ASEAN Leader's Summit in Kuala Lumpur, and later at the National Gallery there. In 1998, the Singapore Art Museum featured one of his paintings 'Golden Monks' (1997) in their 'Imaging Selves' exhibition, a curated selection from the Museum's permanent collection of Southeast Asian works.
Min Wae Aung's work has been exhibited in group shows locally and also at international art fairs such as Tresors and Taipei Art Fair International and ASEAN Art Awards 1998 in Vietnam. 'Passages of life' was Min Wae Aung's first solo exhibition (February - October) in Singapore and he has since shown around the world with his first London solo show 'Golden Heritage' being held at the Kings Road Gallery in 2001. Myanmar Artist solo exhibition fetched $15,000 per painting in Singapore..
He was so poor he almost did not make it as an artist, but now Min Wae Aung commands about $15,000 per painting. His evocative drawings of monks caught the eye of a global audience.
The unassuming package belies the fact that, since the mid-1990s, his unforgettable images of barefoot monks and nuns have shone a light for the international art world o?n o?ne of Asia's most underdeveloped countries.
The 43-year-old artist's intensely coloured, linear formations of monks have multiplied themselves like postage stamps across Myanmar. There, every young artist strives to paint like him, copying even the upward flourishes of his signature.
In Singapore for an o?ngoing solo exhibition at Mita Building's Art-2 gallery, Min Wae Aung says he is unfazed by his legion of imitators.
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Danubyu Myanmar (Burma)
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