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Feature Artists

San Minn
born 1951, Myanmar

San Minn born 1951, Myanmar, majored in Botany at Rangoon Art & Science University. He started painting under several eminent painters there, including U Nann Waii on weekends. He was a founder of the Gangaw Village artists group in 1979, exhibited commemoratively by Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2012.

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His work Age of Full Bloom (1979) is exhibited at Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century, UOB Southeast Asia Gallery Permanent Exhibition, National Gallery, Singapore.

 

He has been involved in more than 100 exhibitions, oftentimes as organizer. His work has been exhibited at internationally since 1996.

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San Minn in studio portrait 2015 photo b
Exhibitions

1995 

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1996

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1999

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2001

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2010

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Omnibus Gallery,

Kyoto

New Paintings from Myanmar,

The Substation, Singapore

Oriental Curtain,

Cologne and Helsinki

The End of Growth,

Heinrich Boll Foundation, Bangkok

Birmanie, Myanmar: Un Autre Regard,

Université de Provence International, Marseilles

Myanmar Contemporary Art, 

Chiangmai University, Chiangmai

Freedom in Blossom: Gangaw Village and Experimental Art in 1980s Burma

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

​Banned in Burma: Painting under Censorship,

The Nock Foundation, Hong Kong

San Minn: Solo 2015

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Selected Works

2015

2014

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2012

2012

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Portrait of My Sister

(1979)
Oil on canvas

Past, Present and Future (1979)
Oil on canvas

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Departure (1987)
Acrylic on canvas

The Mad World (1979)
Acrylic on canvas

Chin Tribesman (1982)
Oil on canvas

Beauty (1983)
Oil on canvas

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