by Sue Htat Aung

Night Market 2012
121x91 cm
Sue Htat Aung

Sue Htat Aung was born in Yangon in 1965. He attended the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon from 1983 to 1986, and after graduation worked as a freelance comic magazine and book illustrator. His first solo show was in 2013. He now works mainly as an independent artist.

This painting faithfully presents Yangon street life as it is today, with people sitting on plastic stools at plastic tables to drink tea, have dinner and chat. The likelihood is that ten years from now scenes like this will have disappeared from most Yangon streets as rapid modernization reshapes the city.