Phyu Mon

Phyu Mon is a Burmese writer, photographer, performance artist, and painter who is a renowned artist and one of the very few women in the profession. She is also known for being very much gender-aware.

She is best known as a leading digital artist. She has done a lot of art work and has participated in art exhibitions in many countries such as Italy, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and France.

Biography
Phyu Mon was born in 1960 in Mandalay, Myanmar. She graduated from Mandalay University with B.A. in Literature. From 1978 to 1979, she studied painting under the Master artist U Ba Thaw.

In 1997, she started performance art in Mandalay. In 2000, she collaborated with Japanese artist Seiji Shimoda.

Under Mr. Pekka Niskanen, she studied film art from the High tech training school of Finland in 2005. She screened "Blend the world" film in 2007 in Denmark.

In 2013, she studied video and film production through a program from the High Tech Training School of Finland. In 2014, she received her diploma from the National University of Culture and Art.

In 2017, she showed "Blooming Sound" at the Wathann Film Festival. Her films were also screened abroad, in Japan, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand.

Selected exhibitions

 * Hope – T.H.E.O. Arts Professionals, Singapore, 2013
 * Dream Lands – Asia Fine Art Limited, Hong Kong, SAR, 2012

Group exhibitions

 * Beyond Burma, Bangkok, 2012
 * One Hundred Years International Days, Hong Kong, 2011
 * Magnetic Power, Seoul, 2009
 * Aye Ko, Aung Myint, Nyein Chan Su, Burma – Speaking Alone, Bangkok, 2009
 * Myanmar Contemporary Art Festival, Landon, 2010
 * Multimedia Art festival, Yangon, 2010
 * Blend the World, Copenhagen, 2010
 * Blue Wind Contemporary art Exhibition, Yangon, 2009
 * We are Burma, Berkeley, USA, 2009

Personal life
Phyu Mon married the famous artist Chan Aye in 1985.