Aay Preston-Myint
Aay Preston-Myint (born 1981) is a visual artist and art educator. He is based in Oakland, California.
Aay Preston-Myint
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- Name
- Aay Preston-Myint
- Born
- 1981
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, U.S.
- Awards
- Fellowship award (2019), Kala Art Institute
- Field
- visual artist, art fair organizer
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- artist · printmaker · teacher · disc jockey
- Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Languages
- English
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Aay Preston-Myint (born 1981) is a visual artist and art educator. He is based in Oakland, California.
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Aay Preston-Myint (born 1981) is an artist, disc jockey and printmaker, among other activities, of American nationality. The artist was born in New York City.
Aay Preston-Myint was educated at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist worked for School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Languages used include English.
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• Name — Aay Preston-Myint • Born — 1981 • Birthplace — New York City, New York, U.S. • Awards — Fellowship award (2019), Kala Art Institute • Field — visual artist, art fair organizer
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Aay Preston-Myint was born in 1981 in New York City, New York. He has worked extensively in Chicago, Illinois, and is a co-founder of the Chicago Art Book Fair. The Chicago Art Book Fair has been held annually since 2017 and emerged from the No Coast publishing imprint. Preston-Myint was a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; a program manager at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and the executive director of SF Camerawork in San Francisco, California. He founded Chances Dances, a party that "supports and showcases the work of queer artists in Chicago."
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Aay Preston-Myint's solo exhibitions include At Night, I Think of You, held at the Threewalls Gallery in Chicago in 2013; Project #11, and held in 2018 at the 'sindikit gallery in Baltimore, Maryland in 2018. He had two solo exhibitions shows in 2019: Wormhole at Adler & Floyd in Chicago and X O at the Royal Nonesuch Gallery in Oakland, California.
Aay Preston Myint Chicago Art Book Fair cofounder
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- 1.Voon, Claire. Chicago Welcomes Its First Art Book Fair. Hyperallergic. 2017-11-17.
- 2.Eler, Alicia. A Space Where Identity Politics Give Way to Queer Minimalism. Hyperallergic. 2013-05-29.
- 3.Artist of the Week: Aay Preston-Myint. LVL3. 2018-01-11.
- 4.Rosenberg, Tal. The inaugural Chicago Art Book Fair isn't for art-book people—it's for everyone. Chicago Reader. 2017-11-16.
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