Phyu Mon

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Phyu Mon
ဖြူမွန်
Born1960 (age 6364)
NationalityBurmese
Occupation(s)Painter, Poet
SpouseChan Aye

Phyu Mon is a Burmese writer, photographer, performance artist, and painter who is a renowned artist and one of the very few women in the profession. She is also known for being very much gender-aware.

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She is best known as a leading digital artist. She has done a lot of art work and has participated in art exhibitions in many countries such as Italy, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and France. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Biography

Phyu Mon was born in 1960 in Mandalay, Myanmar. She graduated from Mandalay University with B.A. in Literature. From 1978 to 1979, she studied painting under the Master artist U Ba Thaw.

From 1989 to 1995, together with her husband, Phyu Mon started an embroidery company. At the same time, she continues her passion for story-writing and drawing. [5]

In 1981, she published her first short story, which was featured in the annual 'University' magazine. Later on, in July 1986, another short story, "Suffering", was shown in Dagon magazine. [6]

In 1997, she started performance art in Mandalay. In 2000, she collaborated with Japanese artist Seiji Shimoda. [7]

Under Mr. Pekka Niskanen, she studied film art from the High tech training school of Finland in 2005. She screened "Blend the world" film in 2007 in Denmark.

In 2013, she studied video and film production through a program from the High Tech Training School of Finland. In 2014, she received her diploma from the National University of Culture and Art. [7]

In 2017, she showed "Blooming Sound" at the Wathann Film Festival. Her films were also screened abroad, in Japan, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand.

Selected exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Personal life

Phyu Mon married the famous artist Chan Aye in 1985.

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References

  1. "ရသစုံဖန်တီးမှုများနှင့် အနုပညာရှင် ဖြူမွန်".
  2. "Meeting Artist Phyu Mon".
  3. "Phyu Mon".
  4. "အိမ်ဆိုတဲ့အဓိပ္ပာယ် အိမ်မျှော်လင့်ချက်".
  5. "Myanmar Women Artists • Asia Art Archive in America" . Retrieved September 2, 2024.
  6. "Phyu Mon". AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes. Retrieved September 2, 2024.
  7. 1 2 "အနုပညာပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုနှင့် ခေတ်ကို ရင်ပေါင်တန်းသူ မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီးများ".