Artist: Kyee Myintt Saw
Born: 1939 in Yangon, Myanmar
Nationality: Burmese
Education: B.Sc (Maths), Yangon University (1966)
M.Sc (Maths), Yangon University (1990)
Professional Career: Faculty Member, Institute of Economics
President of the Art Committee between 1973 and 1988
Favourite Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, Oil on Canvas
President of the Art Committee between 1973 and 1988
A dedicate and prolific artist who had participated in over seventy shows, Kyee Myintt Saw was a faculty member of the Yangon Arts and Science University and the Institute of Economics, before his retirement.
His paintings are alive with mobility and sparkles with the various hues of typical Myanmar colours under the tropical sun.
His preferred subject is the market, at night or in the blaze or early morning, which he has painted by the hundreds of canvases for ten straight years. The friendliness of the Myanmar people is what makes the country great and he has deftly caught the bustling mood of the market scenes. In his famous night scene series, there is an overall sense of exuberance tempered with the hidden depths of loneliness of each person.
His talent is to catch the light and shadows from the sun or from the blazing lights of a rainy night. The colours of the morning market under the lively sun add a touch of excitement of his paintings while the cooler shadows the feel of ease.
Over 70 shows from 1973 to 2012 (Myanmar)
1983 Culture Exchange Program, Beijing, China
1994 Fourth ASEAN Art Show, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
2002 Philip Morris Groups of Companies, ASEAN Art Awards Finals, Bali, Indonesia
2007 Myanmar Masters, Asia Fine Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2007 Myanmar Contemporary Art Plan B, Washington, USA
2008 Six Strokes, Singapore
2011 Eye on Burma, Art Square Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012 Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair Hong Kong 2012
2012 Freedom in Blossom! Gangaw Village and Experimental Art in 1980s Burma, Fukuoka Asian Art Musuem, Japan
2013 Contentions (four Myanmar Artists), Art 2 Gallery, Singapore
1999 Yangon Nights, Orient Art Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar
2005 Purple Shadows, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar
2007 Yangon Nights, Asia Fine Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2009 Light, Suvannabhumi Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2010 Night and Light, Asia Fine Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2011 Soul of Night, Suvannabhumi Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2014 I am the Night: I am the Light, Lokanat Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar