Born in South Okkalapa, Myanmar in 1962

1980- 1983 B.Sc (Physic), University of Rangoon

Member of GNWP (Global Network Watercolor Painters) Japan

Studied Under: Art Master Kyitelatt U Win Maung.

Exhibitions

• 1992 Orient Art Gallery, Yangon
• 1994 Gallant Lion Art Gallery, Yangon
• 1995 Tri Art Gallery, Yangon and Pagan
• 1996 Spectrum exhibition, Yangon
• 1997 Zillion Art Gallery, Yangon
• 1998 4th Illustrators Exhibition, Yangon
• All Myanmar Art and Sculpture Exhibition, National Museum, Yangon
• 1999 Outdoor Water Color Group Show, Yangon
• 2001 First Page of 21st Century, Summit Parkview Hotel, Yangon
• 2003 Second Page of 21st Century, Summit Parkview Hotel, Yangon
• 2005 Third Page of 21st Century, Summit Parkview Hotel, Yangon
• 2006 Fourth Page of 21st Century, Summit Parkview Hotel, Yangon
• All Myanmar Art Exhibition 2006, Mandalay City Hall, Mandalay
• 2007 Fifth Page of 21st Century, Summit Parkview Hotel, Yangon
• Color House Exhibition, Yangon
• 2008 Finalist Exhibition of Myanmar Contemporary Art Award 2008, Strand Hotel, Yangon
• 2009 Group Show for Fund-Raising at Bogyoke Market, Yangon
• 2010 Group Show for Fund-Raising at HinnSieGone Old-age Home, Yangon
• 2013 Art 13 Myanmar Art Exhibition (Tatmataw Hall)
• 3rd Asia Water Color Painter Network Exhibition, Yangon, Myanmar
• 2014 7 Taste Group Show, Gallery 65, Yangon
• 2014 The 3THIRD GNWP Shanghai Exhibition
• 2014 1st Solo Art Exhibition, Horizontal Gallery, Yangon
• 2015 Save Myanmar Charity Art Exhibition, River Ayeyarwaddy Gallery, Yangon
• 2016 10/10 Anniversary Exhibitions, River Gallery, Yangon
• 2017 Yangon Art Expo 2017, Junction City Tower, Yangon
• 2017 Myanmar 2050, River Gallery Artists Annual Exhibition, River Gallery, Yangon
• Abroad Exhibitions
• 2012 Exposition L’ Art Au Myanmar, Galarie Art Concorde, Paris
• 2012 Rabindranath Tagone 150th Birth Anniversary (India)
• 2020 TRiCERA Online Exhibition, Japan

Art Awards

2008 Second Prize at “Beauty of Myanmar 4”, Competition for free hand in Painting, Park Royal Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar.

2008 First Prize at Best Painting of the year 2008 – Tun Foundation Bank

2008 Final List, Myanmar Contemporary Art Award, River Gallery, Yangon

2009 First Prize at Post Nargis Portrait Competition, Central Co-Operative Association Yangon

U Nyein Chan Su, often known as NCS, is one of the most well – known performance artists in the world of contemporary art. He played a contribution in introducing performance art to Myanmar as one of the artists. He earned his degree from the State School of Fine Arts in 1991. (Yangon)

            He showed his 20 solo exhibitions in both inbound and outbound venues, including Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore. He took part in 50 group exhibitions. He made extensive use of various mixed media. His most well-known  creations include the Toy Soldiers miniature and the Dreamscape series.

Group Exhibition

• 1994 Snow Set Inya Gallery,Yangon, Myanmar
• 1995 Oxygen Exhibition White Line Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
• 1996 Nat Mauk Group Show in Yangon, Myanmar
• 1997 Summer Poetary Lodanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
• 1998 Myanmar Art 98 Yangon, Myanmar
• 1999 Group Show in the Myanmar Gallery of Contemporary Art, Yangon, Myanmar
• 2000 Oil Painting Program The Myanmar Gallery of Contemporary Art, Yangon
• 2000 Annual Group Show The Gallery of contemporary Art, Yangon
• Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore
• 2001 Myanmar Contemporary Art Award finalists Exhibition in Yangon & HK
• 2001 New Millennium Group Show MGCA, Yangon, Myanmar
• Through Myanmar Eyes Art Season Gallery, Singapore
• The World’s Premier Contemporary Asian Art Fair 2001, Singapore
• 2002 Random Illusion The Myanmar Gallery of Contemporary Art, Yangon, Myanmar
• Special Group Show Azada Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
• 5th Annual Group Show at MCGA, Yangon, Myanmar
• 2002 Burmese Dreamscape Art Season Gallery, Singapore
• Phillip Morris Asian Art Award Exhibition Yangon & Bali, Indonesia Contemporary Asian Art Fair, Singapore
• Burma Days, Zee Stone Art Gallery, HK
• 2003 Burmese Contemporaries Group Show Art Season Gallery, Singapore
• 2004 Inner Light Contemporary Art Show Lokanat Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
• New Zero 20th 2004 at Lokanat Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
• The Myanmar Contemporary Art Exhibition at YIS (ILBC), Yangon, Myanmar
• 2004 Myanmar Contemporary Art Award Exhibition” HK
• 2004 Asia Pop Art Season Galleries, Singapore
• 2005 New Zero Group Show at Lokanat Gallery in Yangon, Myanmar
• 05 Figures Korea & Myanmar Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Yangon, Myanmar
• 2006 Identity at Blue Space Contemporary Center, Hochiminh City, Vietnam
• Contemporary Art from Myanmar The Dhara Dhevi Gallery at Kad Dhara, Chaing Mai, Thailand
• 2007 Recent Works at Studio Square, Yangon, Myanmar
• Orient 2007 at ASEAN-JAPAN Center, Tokyo Japan
• 2007 Group Show Karin Weber Art Gallery, Hk
• 2011 Myanmar National Portrait Competition 2011, FINALIST exhibition, The Strand Hotel, Yangon
• 2011 Snow Set Contemporary Art Show, Ministry of Culture Art Gallery, Yangon
• 2012 Exposition L’ Art Au Myanmar, Galarie Art Concorde, Paris
• 2013 The Very First Moral Issue of EAo 90s Emerging Artists of 90s” Art Exhibition, Studio Square, Yangon
• 2015 Save and Save Art Exhibition, The Yangon Gallery, Yangon

Solo Exhibition

• 1997 24 Lokanat Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
• 1998 Nude Invy Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
• NCS The Myanmar Gallery of Contemporary Art, Yangon, Myanmar
• 1999 Color in Rodeo, Rodeo Café, Yangon, Myanmar
• 2003 NCS, Early Works Solo Show at Book for All (Book Store) in Yangon, Myanmar
• 2004 Pop Art Show Yangon, Myanmar
• NCS Recent Works at Sedona Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar
• 2006 Nat+06 at Studio Square, Yangon, Myanmar

Awards

• 2001 Certificate of Recognition, Phillip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN Art Award
• 2004 Second Prize at Myanmar Contemporary Art Award, Myanmar Time, Myanmar

Museum Collections

• Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
• Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Private Collections

• Charoen Pockhand Group of Companies, Thailand
• Phillip Morris Group of Companies,
• Private Collection in Great Britain, Italy, Japan, France, Singapore, Germany
• KBZ Bank, Yangon, Myanmar
• ILBC (YIS), Myanmar Bank Association

Ma Zaw, born in February 1959, is a distinguished Burmese artist and botanist. She pursued his education at Yangon University, earning a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Botany in 1984-1985. Ma Zaw’s artistic journey has been shaped under the guidance of renowned art masters such as U Mg Mg Thein in Pathein, U Htay Aung, U Khin Mg Than in Mandalay, U Soe Myint Sein, and U Aung Naing Mg.

Throughout the years, Ma Zaw’s artwork has been featured in various exhibitions, showcasing her talent and creativity. Notable exhibitions include showcases at Magic Art Gallery in Yangon (2010-2014), Mandalay Hill Art Gallery in Mandalay (2015), and the yearly Pan City Artist Exhibition from 2014 to 2019. She also participated in the Myanmar Ladies Art Exhibition and U Thu Kha Memorial in 2016-2017, and the Women’s Artist Exhibition in 2011.

Ma Zaw’s unique artistic perspective, influenced by his background in botany, adds a distinctive flavor to his creations, making him a notable figure in the Myanmar art scene.

Lynn Wunna credits the guidance he received from one of Burma’s most renowned and influential artists, Bagyi Aung Soe, as setting him on his own unique artistic path. “Art is not for money,” he recalls Bagyi Aung Soe advising. “It is your obligation to create works of aesthetic appeal. Whether or not you can make money, that depends on fate.” The eldest of six siblings, Lynn Wunna was born in Rangoon’s Tamwe Township. His father was an English teacher and his mother a civil servant. He began learning the very basics of painting when he was young as well-known cartoonist Myay Zar taught art at his local kindergarten. When he was in fifth grade, he studied basic painting from the artist Lun Kywe and by the ninth grade, he was taking tips from Bagyi Aung Soe, who lived just four doors down from his home. Bagyi Aung Soe did not teach him painting techniques directly at first but instead showed him pictures in books and explained how they were drawn and asked him to imitate the style.

He still remembers much of the late artist’s advice. “One day he said I had become half an artist,” Lynn Wunna said. “I asked him what I was supposed to do to be a fully-fledged artist and he told me to read a lot.” Bagyi Aung Soe also helped him undergo mind training exercises such as mediating and counting beads to obtain Satori—a state of mind helping a person to better understand their true nature. “Don’t be a second Aung Soe; be the first Lynn Wunna,” Bagyi Aung Soe once told him. Lynn Wunna was arrested on September 9, 1990, and spent three months in Insein Prison for his involvement in politics. He studied at the State Fine Arts School in Rangoon from 1991-94 but, just two months after graduation, he was arrested for a second time and spent another year in jail. “Artists love freedom. Throughout history, artists have always confronted rulers during dark eras in which freedom is prohibited,” Lynn Wunna said. “I took part in basic education school student unions after the 1988 pro-democracy uprising and was consequently imprisoned when I was in 10th grade.” After his release, he was no longer permitted to study at school and had to take exams off-campus. “I think politics concerns everyone living in the country. Unless and until people… enjoy complete human freedom and there is responsibility and accountability, politics will remain a crushing burden on us,” Lynn Wunna said, adding that he was optimistic about the country’s future. The Rangoon-born artist has so far held eight solo exhibitions since 1996 and participated in dozens of group shows and charity events. He describes the creation of his works as dependent on his mental state. “I focus on color rather than figures and draw out my feelings on canvas in a state of mind between consciousness and unconsciousness. If consciousness is stronger than unconsciousness, my painting is dominated by drawing techniques and if unconsciousness is stronger… the painting is dominated by abstract composition,” he said. “Sometimes images which hide in the deepest parts of the mind come out onto canvas without the knowledge of the creator.” When asked how he defines a successful artist, he pointed to Bagyi Aung Soe and Kin Maung Yin as examples. “They have attained the highest state. I mean a state in which an artist can free his mind and draw out his feelings freely without being burdened. This I think is the highest achievement for an artist,” he said. Aside from painting, Lynn Wunna is also involved in illustration. “To illustrate, you need to have a strong imagination, and for arts, you need to have strong feeling,” he said.

Artist: Lun Mya Mya (Mrs. U Lun Gywe)

Born: 1941

Nationality: Burmese

Education: B.A.

Studied Under: The most famous impressionist Artist U Lun Gywe

Favorite Medium: Oil, Water Color

• 1999 Gallery Show of ALAG No 1
• 2000 Gallery Show of ALAG No 1
• 2001 Gallery Show of ALAG No 1
• 2001 Htan Yeik Nyo Gallery Mandalay
• 2002 Lun Mya Mya Art Work of First Solo Show at Lokanat Gallery Yangon
• 2002 Myanmar Art Exhibition (The Myanmar Traditional Artists and Artisans Organization Central)
• 2002 North Okkalapa Township Group Show Bogyoke Market
• 2002 ALAG Unity of Colours Show of Fine Arts 3rd Annual Show of ALAG No 1
• 2003 Lun Mya Mya Art Works of Second Solo Show at Lokanat Gallery Yangon
• 2003 Gallery Show of Hinnthar Gallery, Inyamying Road, Golden Valley (2)
• 2004 Special November Art Show 4th Annual Show of ALAG
• 2004 Lun Family Show of Alliance Francaise DE Rangoum Sanchaung Township Yangon
• 2004 Lun Mya Mya Art Works of 3rd Solo Show at Lokanat Gallery Yangon
• 2005 Jun Ladies in Colour Art Shows (Group Show) Yangon
• 2006 4th Solo Show, Yangon
• 2006 Member Show of Artist Life Gallery
• 2006 Member Show of Hin Tha Art Gallery
• 2006 Ladies Group Show Yangon
• 2007 5th Solo Show Yangon
• 2007 Member Show of Artist Life Art Gallery
• 2007 Member Show of Hin Tha Art Gallery
• 2007 1st Grand Art Stream Family Art Exhibition Grand Mee Ya Hta, Yangon
• 2008 6th Solo Show Yangon
• 2008 Member Show of Art Life Art Gallery
• 2008 Member Show of Hin Tha Art Gallery
• 2008 The 2nd Grand Art Stream Family Art Exhibition Grand Mee Ya Hta, Yangon
• 2009 Member Show of Artist Life Art Gallery
• 2009 Member Show of Hin Tha Art Gallery
• 2010 – Now The 3rd Art Stream Family Art Exhibition Grand Mee Ya Hta, Yangon. Main Sponsor by Royal Myanmar Teamix, Co-sponsors Grand Mee Ya Hta, Cannon, Myanmar Times

Khin Zaw Latt was born in 1980 in Laputta, Ayeyarwaddy Division, Myanmar. He grew up in a family of artists, his father being a pianist, his mother a Myanmar traditional dancer and one of his elder brothers a painter. He started drawing at a very young age.

From 1998 to 2002 he attended the University of Culture in Yangon, where he studied painting.

After graduating, he decided to do a tour of Asian countries in order to get inspiration for his Artistic practice.

In 2007 he visited India and Nepal. In 2008 he visited Malaysia where he attended an artist’s residency. He also visited Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, to further develop his knowledge of art practices in the region.

After receiving a honorary mention at the 2004 Myanmar Contemporary Art Award he was the winner of the 2008 Myanmar Contemporary Art Award. He was a finalist in the 2009 Sovereign Art Prize and won a first prize at the first ever Myanmar national portrait competition, in 2011.

He has already showcased his work in 6 solo exhibitions and over 15 group exhibitions in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Nepal, America, Germany, Thailand, Canada and Belgium.

Most of his collectors are from Germany, France, Switzerland, UK, Canada, USA, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. He is the founder of KZL ART Gallery and Bamboo Art School.

Born in 1980 in Laputta, Irrawaddy Division, Myanmar.

1998-2002 B.A, University of Culture, majoring in painting

Exhibitions

• 2000 Feb, Yangon
• 2000 Starle, Yangon
• 2002 Simple Poem, Yangon
• 2002 NACG, Yangon
• 2003 Mother Art Exhibition, Yangon
• 2004 Myanmar Contemporary Art Award Exhibition of Finalists, Strand Hotel,Yangon
• 2005 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yangon
• 2005 Myanmar-Art.com Art Exhibition, Yangon
• 2006 X Mas Season Art Exhibition in Yangon
• 2007 Photos by Painters Exhibition, Yangon
• 2008 Myanmar Contemporary Art Award Exhibition of Finalist, Strand Hotel,Yangon
• 2008 Art Tree Exhibition in Yangon
• 2008 Square Collection Exhibition, Yangon
• 2009 Crowdscapes Solo Exhibition, The Strand Hotel, Yangon
• 2009 Nagis Fund Exhibition, Yangon
• 2009 Aesthetic Rain Exhibition, Yangon
• 2010 Art Tree” Exhibition, Yangon
• 2011 Myanmar National Portrait Competition 2011, FINALIST exhibition
• The Strand Hotel, Yangon
• 2011 Shikra Group show, Yangon
• 2011 Introduction of Current Works Solo Show, Yangon
• 2012 A ten year Story, Yangon
• 2012 Hope Charity Show, Yangon
• 2012 Big Bigger Biggest Art Exhibition, Yangon
• 2012 Magic Water watercolor Exhibition, Yangon
• 2012 Pure Heart” Art Exhibition, Wahso Art Gallery, Yangon
• 2016 10/10 Anniversary Exhibitions, River Gallery, Yangon
• 2017 7th Anniversary of Trish Gallery, Grand Group Art Exhibition, Trish Gallery, Yangon
• Abroad Exhibitions
• 2004 Myanmar Contemporary Art Award Exhibition of Finalists, Hong Kong
• 2004 Sound Art Exhibition, Singapore
• 2005 Two Burmese Brothers, Two Men Show Hong Kong
• 2006 Two Burmese Brothers 2, Two Men Show Hong Kong
• 2006 Blissful Buddha’s, Solo Exhibition, Shanghai, China
• 2006 Quiet Wind” – five Burmese artists, San Francisco, USA
• 2006 To Tranquility Art Exhibition in Hong Kong
• 2006 Myanmar Scene Art Exhibition in Hong Kong
• 2006 Singapore Art Fair in Singapore
• 2006 Myanmar Three Artists Art Exhibition in Palm Beach, USA
• 2007 Two Burmese Brothers Two Men Show, Nepal
• 2007 Homage to Buddha Art Exhibition in Hong Kong
• 2007 Myanmar Contemporary Art Exhibition in Washington, USA
• 2007 Eternal Bliss Solo Art Exhibition in Hong Kong
• 2008 Vision of Myanmar Two Men Show, Art Exhibition in USA
• 2008 Simplicity Solo Art Exhibition in Hong Kong
• 2009 Two Burmese Brothers Two Men Show in Greenwich ct, USA
• 2009 Finalist Exhibition of 2008 Sovereign Asian Art Award, HK
• 2009 Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, HK
• 2010 Myanmar Art & Culture Lecture, Group Show -Boston, USA
• 2010 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Finalist Exhibition, HK
• 2010 Myanmar Contemporary Art Exhibition, HK
• 2010 Moving Forward Solo Show, HK
• 2010 My Myanmar Solo Show, BKK, Thailand
• 2010 New Beginning Group show, Princeton, USA
• 2011 Eye on Burma Group Show, the East Gallery, Toronto Canada
• 2011 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
• 2012 Burma Rising, Art Exhibition, Hamptons, NY, USA
• 2012 7th Annual Summer Exhibition, HK
• 2012 The East Gallery Anniversary Show, Toronto, Canada
• 2014 Myanmar Art Collection, Art Basel Miami, USA
• 2014/15 Myanmar Art Exhibition, Munich Museum, Germany
• 2015 Myanmar Art out of the Box, Exhibition in Philadelphia, USA
• 2015 Myanmar Art Crossing, LA Art Show, USA
• 2015 Master of Myanmar Art, Art Exhibition, KL, Malaysia
• 2015 Art of Asean, Our Exhibition in KL, Malaysia
• 2015 Maritime Silk Road Art Festival Shanghai, China
• 2017 Affordable Art Fair, Singapore
• 2017 Solo Exhibition, France

Museum Collection

• 2014 the Funf Kontinente Museum, Munich, Germany.
• 2019 National Museum Yangon, Myanmar

Art Awards

• 2000 Second Prize at Myanmar Youth Art Contest, Yangon
• 2004 Honorary mention at Myanmar Contemporary Art Award, Yangon
• 2008 First Prize at Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards 2008, Yangon
• 2009 Finalist at Sovereign Art Award 2009, HK
• 2011 First Prize at Myanmar National Portrait Competition 2011, River Gallery, Yangon
• Other Art Experience
• 2007 Studied and worked at India and Nepal for two months
• 2008 Studied and worked at Artist Residency in Malaysia

2013 30 days Art Tour to Belgium, Germany, France and Switzerland