Chuu Wai
Chuu Wai Nyein (born 1992 in Yatsaut, Shan State) is a painter, performance artist and activist from Myanmar who has lived in exile in Paris following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
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Chuu Wai
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- Name
- Chuu Wai
- Born
- 1992
- Birthplace
- Yatsaut, Shan State
- Field
- Painter
- Training
- Studies under artists U Chit Thaw(Myingyan), U Khin Maung San (Mandalay), U Suu Myint Thein (Alin-Dagar Art School), U Nay San (Amar-Pura), U Win Pe Myint, Justice Art, Nation University of Art and Culture (Mandalay)
- Awards
- *2012 Indian Consulate painting competition, First Prize
- Nationality
- Myanmar
- Languages
- Burmese · English · French
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Chuu Wai Nyein (born 1992 in Yatsaut, Shan State) is a painter, performance artist and activist from Myanmar who has lived in exile in Paris following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
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• Name — Chuu Wai • Native Name — ခြူးဝေ • Birth Name — Chuu Wai • Born — 1992 • Birthplace — Yatsaut, Shan State • Field — Painter • Training — Studies under artists U Chit Thaw(Myingyan), U Khin Maung San (Mandalay), U Suu Myint Thein (Alin-Dagar Art School), U Nay San (Amar-Pura), U Win Pe Myint, Justice Art, Nation University of Art and Culture (Mandalay) • Awards — *2012 Indian Consulate painting competition, First Prize • 2013 Indian Consulate painting competition, First Prize • 2015 Goethe-Institut Scholarship to attend “Curator Lab” • Series in Indonesia, Germany, Thailand • 2015 Speaker at Workshop at Yangon • 2015 Speaker at Global Entrepreneurship week
Early life and education
Early life and education
Chuu first graduated with a bachelor's degree in IT Engineering Technological University, Mandalay, she then earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Art, National University of Art and Culture, Mandalay. She studied under U Chit Thaw (Myingyan), U Khin Maung San (Mandalay), U Suu Myint Thein (Alin-Dagar Art School), U Nay San (Amar-Pura), U Win Pe Myint, Justice Art, Nation University of Art, Culture (Mandalay) and other.
The exiled painter, performance artist and activist Chuu Wai (born 1992) from Myanmar at the Espace Kugler in Geneva, Switzerland, during the Open Space of the INSPIRE project by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
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