14 – 28 September 2024
Kyaw Htoo Bala (b. 1992, Myanmar) is an artist with a multidisciplinary approach, delving into contemporary matters through his creative expression. He graduated in Fine Arts from Lasalle College of The Arts, Singapore in 2017. Bala’s artistic range encompasses painting, photography, printmaking, sculpting, videography, and digital art. In 2021, Bala founded Monologue Art Space in Yangon, Myanmar, providing a platform for artistic exploration and collaboration. His first solo exhibition took place in Yangon in 2017, and he was honored as a finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in Hong Kong in 2022. In 2023, his work was showcased in a group exhibition presented by Intersections at S.E.A Focus in Singapore. Currently, Bala works at his studio in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Selected exhibition: Group exhibition at Lokanat Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar, 2013. Solo exhibition ‘The Enigmatic Breakfast’ , at Myan Art Gallery, Yangon Myanmar, 2017. Group exhibition ‘The Sovereign Asian Art’, Nominated at Art Central, Hong Kong, 2022. Group exhibition ‘S.E.A. Focus’, at Singapore/Intersections Gallery, Singapore, 2023. Solo exhibition ‘The Scream of the Gecko’, at Monologue Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2024.
About the Series ‘People, Flower, and Fish Bone’ is a recent series by Bala, inspired by his earlier work, ‘The Tales.’ In this mini-series, he contemplates the daily realities and events unfolding in his country. Bala uses flowers and fish bones as simple yet powerful metaphors to represent hope, the future, the past, and death.
