ARTISTS

Kaung Su From Silence is Golden: DVD Magazine Vol.1

Kaung Su
Myanmar

1972 -

Kaung Su was born in 1972 in Yangon, Myanmar. Between 1991-94, he studied painting at local artist Pyi Soe Myint, and attended briefly Yangon’s State School of Fine Arts. He has been a regular participant in exhibitions since 1995, as well as performance art. In 2001, he had his very first one-man exhibition at Lawkanat Gallery in Yangon. He is not only an artist, also a video art/short film maker and author of several articles on Arts & Astronomy. In September.2011, he received Special Mention for New Vision Award of Wathan Film Festival (2011), Yangon. He has organized three international exchange programs that “Ongoing Echoes” International Art exchange Project- since 2009, and participated in other several foreign art projects. In 2012, he was inbound resident artist for one month with the Apex art Foundation in New York, U.S.A. He is a founder of KSU art studio (Yangon) and a Board Member of New Zero Art Space. In early 2013, he became member artist of APT (Artist Pension Trust).


Editor: Aura Contemporary Art Foundation