CHAW EI THEIN
My Background and Vision
My Background and Vision
My Background and Vision
I was born in 1969 in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). I graduated with LL.B (Law) in 1994. I has started art at an early age through I had received numerous national and international art prizes and awards. My father is an artist and art teacher Pathein Maung Maung Thein. He is my art teacher and mentor. My artistic practices are diverse and I
I was born in 1969 in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). I graduated with LL.B (Law) in 1994. I has started art at an early age through I had received numerous national and international art prizes and awards. My father is an artist and art teacher Pathein Maung Maung Thein. He is my art teacher and mentor. My artistic practices are diverse and I am working as a painter and a performance artist. I profile my personal life and socio-political views in my artworks.
Some of What I Do
My Background and Vision
My Background and Vision
Over the years I have lectured and exhibited extensively, participating in numerous international performance art festivals. I exhibited "September Sweetness", in collaboration with Richard Streitmatter-Tran, at Singapore Biennale 2008 and gave talk "The Burmese Performance Art Scene: Faced by Burmese Artists" at the Asia House Gallery,
Over the years I have lectured and exhibited extensively, participating in numerous international performance art festivals. I exhibited "September Sweetness", in collaboration with Richard Streitmatter-Tran, at Singapore Biennale 2008 and gave talk "The Burmese Performance Art Scene: Faced by Burmese Artists" at the Asia House Gallery, London, in 2007. I has been selected for several awards and residencies in the United States, including Asian Cultural Council fellowship in New York from 2009 to 2010 and Art Omi, the Gardarev Center Fellow, and the Sea Change Residency, GAEA Foundation. In 2016 I received AIT (Art Initiative Tokyo) fellowship in Tokyo, Japan.
More of What I Do
My Background and Vision
More of What I Do
I have been given artist presentations at several universities and institutions including School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), Massachusetts College of Art, Brown University, Princeton University, New School, Northern Illinois University at DeKalb (NIU), University of Minnesota, and the Open Society Institute (OSI) in New York.
My
I have been given artist presentations at several universities and institutions including School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), Massachusetts College of Art, Brown University, Princeton University, New School, Northern Illinois University at DeKalb (NIU), University of Minnesota, and the Open Society Institute (OSI) in New York.
My work has been covered in the international arts press including Sculpture Now (2013), Asia Art Now (2012), Artforum, Art Asia Pacific, Yishu, C-Arts, The New York Times, Washington Post and The Straits Times.
I was also co-founder and Director of the Sunflower Art Gallery in Yangon, Myanmar. In this capacity I have developed several initiatives including the organizing of art exhibitions and fairs including special exhibitions for children’s art in Myanmar and Cambodia, and for psychiatric patients since 1994. I had been teaching art to children for more than 15 years and served as Editor for a youth magazine in Yangon.
I received “Finalist of 2017 Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art”.
Myanmar Director Min Min Hein created Documentary (short) film “LISTEN” about me, Chaw Ei Thein, and released film in 2017.
In 2021 I co-founded “Association for Myanmar Contemporary Arts (AMCA) organization with other fellow Myanmar Artists and friends in New York.
I am a co-founder of STUDIO MUDRA gallery in Santa Fe. In 2023 I became a member of Santa Fe Society of Artists.