Pyae Phyo Thant Nyo

Burmese artist who reinterprets Burmese mythology through modern lenses to create a new form of expression and identity

As a multidisciplinary artist, Phyo started working with photography. Finding the medium limiting, his focus shifted onto painting, mastering a method he named ‘analogue photoshop’. It aims to approach physical canvas as one would digital one, combining Western and Eastern pre-existing visual elements into a complex multicultural image. Phyo reinterprets Burmese mythology through modern lenses to create a new form of expression and identity that would correspond with him and his contemporary’s worldview as he grew up in a Yangon surrounded by Western influences, from art,
cinema to, often misrepresented, history. Phyo’s practice aims to bridge the generational, ideological and geographical gap, that he experienced first-handed when residing in the United Kingdom, between clashing cultures with Buddhist values.

Pyae Phyo Thant Nyo (b. 1998, Myanmar) has a BA in Fine Art: Photography from the University of Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts (2021).

 

Exhibitions

2020 ART - SPACES - US, Online exhibition by Myanm/art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar (Group exhibition)
https://myanmartevolution.com/2020/06/16/art-spaces-us/

2020 Don’t Panic, Southwark Park Lake Gallery, London, UK (Group exhibition)

2021 Mycelium Collective, Online exhibition, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK (Group exhibition)
https://myceliumcollective.net

2021 SEA, The Showcase, Online exhibition, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK (Group exhibition)

2021 Graduation Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK (Group exhibition)

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