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Chaw Ei Thien
(Born in 1969, Myanmar. Lives and works in New York, USA)


Chaw Ei graduated with LL.B (Law) in 1994. Her artistic recognition started at an early age through the numerous international art awards that she has received. With her father, Artist Maung Maung Thein (Pathein), as her art teacher and a mentor, Chaw Ei's artistic practice has developed diversely and highly regarded as a painter and a performance artist. Her international career is highly profiled as she candidly portrays the contradictions and conflicts of her socio-political environment. Her artworks are primarily the interpretation of her personal experiences over how she has struggled with lack of freedom of speech and the impact of social transformation.

Over the years she has lectured and exhibited extensively, participating in numerous international performance art festivals. She exhibited "September Sweetness" , in collaboration with Richard Streitmatter-Tran, at Singapore Biennale 2008 and gave talk "The Burmese Performance Art Scene: Faced by Burmese Artists" at the Asia House Gallery, London, in 2007. She has been selected for several awards and residencies in the United States, including Asian Cultural Council fellowship in New York from 2009 to 2010 and Art Omi, the Gardarev Center Fellow, and the Sea Change Residency, GAEA Foundation. Her work has been widely covered in the international arts press including Sculpture Now (2013), Asia Art Now (2012), Artforum, Art Asia Pacific, Yishu, C-Arts, and The New York Times, Washington Post and The Straits Times.
www.chaweithein.blogspot.com

Stay: May 9, 2016 - Jul 28, 2016
Co-organized by: The Backers Foundation
Upcoming Exhibition:The BAR vol.9 (The Backers Foundation and AIT Residence Programme) New works by Thermakrishnar Krishnapriya and Chaw Ei Thein (Saturday, July 9 - Saturday, July 23, 2016 at YAMAMOTO GENDAI)
Opening reception: 18:00 - 20:00, Saturday, July 9, 2016 at YAMAMOTO GENDAI

2016-4-25

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Agnieszka Gratza
(Born in 1974, Kraków, Poland. Lives and works in the UK)


Agnieszka Gratza is a writer and drifter. Her writings about art, performance and film have appeared in various contemporary art magazines and newspapers, including artforum.com, frieze, Mousse, and the Financial Times. A lapsed academic, she has also published articles on the subject of Renaissance intellectual and cultural history, while researching and teaching at the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Queen Mary, London.

Her more creative writing often stems from live art and performance: she has collected dreams and staged tableaux vivants of the Annunciation during a residency at the Gershwin Hotel in New York, made a series of edible artworks using saffron in collaboration with local chefs, and taken part in Tino Sehgal's These associations at Tate Modern in 2012. More recently, she has been chasing after volcanoes (from Santorini to São Miguel in the Azores) for a book of volcanic swims.

Blog: Conversation Pieces



Stay: April 11, 2016 - May 15, 2016
Co-organized by: The Backers Foundation

2016-4- 4

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