Artist, Independent Curator
CURATIONS
Finding Inspiration from local to the global
Artist, curator and educator in 10+ years experiences, facilitated the contemporary art approachs in curatorial ideas, organized art events, publishing art books since 2013 to the present. Born in Mandalay, upper Myanmar, currently based in Yangon with Practices in bronze sculpture assisted his father since he was young. He started in art education at the State school of Fine Art, Mandalay in 1991 and graduated in BFA at the University of Art and culture, Yangon in 1998, where he worked as
a lecturer till 2002. He explores the potential in freedom of expression found in contemporary art. He expresses social messages with work that combines a contemporary sense. He is also known as a writer/curator in Myanmar’s art community since 2005 in addition to his involvement within Myanmar.
Exhibition & Documentations
PHENOMENA：The Documentation Project for Myanmar Contemporary Art 2024, Vol: 4. Co-curated by Aung Myat Htay, Yuto Yabumoto
PHENOMENA: The Documentation Project for Myanmar Contemporary Art 2024, Vol: 4, a collborative production of Aura Contemporary Art Foundation and the School of Contemporary Art (SOCA), is now available. Six contemporary artists from Myanmar have been selected for this project, and we publish the video interviews and the catalogue of this project.
See programs below link:​
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Abstraction of Breathing – Exploring the Metabolism of Myanmar contemporary Art 2020,
Co-curated by Aung Myat Htay (SoCA), Yuto Yabumoto (Aura)
Myanmar
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“What makes you an artist?” And to me it’s like breathing”. (Marina Abramovic’) [1]
The origin of this project is seeding in the physical and mental desire of a newborn country, which have been relatively quiet for a long time. Pandemic and wars are ringing the alarm bells for our being human. That is the point of departure of this project. It is directly related to respiration is the biological process of our body, also can applied into bearing multiple meaning of cultural history, mythology, art, politic and critically complex phenomenon. Meanwhile; Myanmar is still facing to fight for Dhamma, that wisdom and rightfulness is trying to prevail on injustice. We struggle with unpredictable obstacles to predict the future. We longing mindfulness of wisdom and empathy, we ready for play in the misty of challenges. Program Info link below:
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SILENCE IS GOLDEN: Contemporary Myanmar Art After Political Changes 2015-2019, Co-Curated by Aung Myat Hatay (SoCA) and YUTO Yabumoto (Aura)
"Speech is Silver but Silence is Golden"
Contemporary Myanmar Art after Political Changes 2015-2019
Introduction:
Art possesses important tools to make lives better, all while perceiving cultural and social histories. After the 2015 general elections, Myanmar successfully transitioned from military rule to a democratic system. We hope that this time provides more chances to express what we want as artists. Today we are focused on good relations between artists and the audience through new engagements.
Program Infos link;
https://aura-asia-art-project.com/en/news/dvd-magazine-silence-is-golden-youtube-links/
Program Videos link;
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL04o_TNJ-2KzPQbbEK-bV88MMy-K6bcYL&si=AX0kcuLk5Vv5gbDx
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