Aung Co is a renaissance man — he is a director of independent short films, a potter, a performance artist, and installation artist. Aung Co’s 2004 solo show made him the most promising artist of his generation. The combination of his pottery and paintings impressed every visitor.
Since that exhibition, serious collectors and some museums have collected his work. Within a few years he grew prolific. He is perhaps the best-travelled of the Myanmar artists.
His recent paintings are pictures of anonymous women pictures, based on old hand-painted photographs. He says, ‘I want to catch the colours of a moment in history.’
Based on an interview with Nance Cunningham in January 2011, in Yangon. For more art conversations, click on the ‘art conversation’ tag at the top of this post.
Chronology:
1980 Born in Pyay, Myanmar
2001 Exp: 22022001, group show, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon
2002 received BA (Painting), from the University of Culture, Yangon, Myanmar
6th Batch group show, National Theatre, Yangon
2004 Aung Ko’s Art Work Solo Show, AZADA Gallery, Yangon
2006 News is No News, a short film solo show, Nm Gallery, Yangon
Myanmar Ceramic Society group show, Alliance Française de Yangon
Ceramic work group show, Mr Brown Café, Yangon
2007 Wild Eye V, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon
8th Open International Performance Festival, Beijing, China
Performance Art Show, Chaungtha, Myanmar
Performance Art Show, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon
Performance Art Show, Thanlyin, Myanmar
Event of Thuyedan, art show, Pyay
2008 Beyond Pressure, International Performance Art Festival, Yangon
Beyond the Rain, art exhibition, Lokanat Gallery, Yangon
Singapore Bienniale 2008 (collaboration with Chaw Ei Thein and Rich Streitmatter Tran)
Festival of Contemporary Theatre and Performance Art, Alliance Française de Yangon
New Zero Fine Art Show, Beikthano Art Gallery, Yangon
Exposition de Collective, art show, Alliance Française de Yangon
2009 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Trienniale, Fukuoka, Japan
Body Temporary/Corps Temporaire performance, Alliance Française de Yangon
2007–2010 Organiser of Thuyedan Event, a village art project
2013 Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
PanSuriya Art Post 