CHAN AYE, Born  (Myanmar)

Chan Aye is a painter and conceptual artist/scultptor  who makes post-modern interpretations of  famous Masterpieces'  paintings  by piercing and puncturing holes onto the canvas-based  painting as a performance art-making process, but more importantly a Buddhist metaphor for "piercing the inner being". Being a devout Buddhist who mediates daily and seeking understandings about life is a critical artistic process of his art-making.

He also explores the artistic production technique of art where conceptual can be both real and unreal. Such imagery can be a manufactured one by self-illusion and consciousness. The outcome is a contradicting  work of art that question rather than to answer for its viewers and audience. Such performance-based painting and its unique holes' production signify possibilities of its contextual meanings and imaging- production applications..

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1990
One Man Show- An exhibition of traditional painting, Inya Art Gallery
2004
Work Tower To Look The World - A solo exhibition of painting
installation & sculptures,The Myanmar Gallery of Contemporary Art, Yangon

Selected Overseas Exhibitions:
1996
"New Painting From Myanmar", Organised  by Art 2 , Substation
,Singapore
1999
"Oriental Curtain" Cologne, Germany
2001
"Oriental Curtain"  Vacaus Art Museum, Varcaus, Finland
2002
"Earth, Wind & Fire", Singapore
2003
Yaddo Art Group Show , Singapore
2004
Yaddo Art Group Show,  Singapore
"The Sovereign Annual Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition ", Hong Kong
2006
"Outstanding Myanmar Art Exhibition", Chiang Mai, Thailand
2007
"Burmese Comporary Art ", Wan Fung Gallery, Shanghai, China
"Burmese Masters Group Show", Asia Fine Art Gallery, Hong Kong.

Selected Local Group Exhibitions
1983
Wild Eye Modern Art Exhibition, Medical Association of Rangoon,Yangon
1984
Periop Modern Art Exhibition, YMCA, Yangon
1985
Rectangular Lantern Painting Show, Railway Station Hall of  Mandalay,
Mandalay.
1993- Rectangular Lantern Painting Show (2) Medical Association Hall of
Mandalay,  Mandalay
1996
"94" Modern Art show, Inya Gallery,Yangon
2001
Meridian Painting Show, Summit Parkview Hotel, Yangon
New Zero Art Exhibition 1 , Lokanet Gallery, Yangon
2002
New Zero Art Exhibition 2 , Lokanet Gallery, Yangon
Myanmar Art Award Exhibition, Phillip Morris Group of Companies ASEAN
Art Competition International Business Centre, Yangon.
2003
An exhibition of Performance, Installation & Sculpture, Beik Thano Art Gallery, Yangon
2004
New Zero Art Exhibition 3 ,  Lawkanat Gallery , Yangon
2005
New Zero Art Exhibition(4) Lawkanat Gallery, Yangon
2004
Inner Light Contemporary Art Show , Lokanat Art Gallery, Yangon
2005
"To River" - Concept Project &Sculpture Art Show,
Alliance Franchise,Yangon
2006
Annual Member Exhibition of Lokanat Gallery, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon.
2007
The Period of Growth Group Show, Belk Thano Art Gallery, Yangon
2008
Fountain  of Loving Kindness-  Fund-raising for the Cyclone Nagis
Co-Organized by  Lawkanat Gallery, Yadanapon Hall, Azda Gallery.Yangon.