Dawei Lay

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Biography of Dawei Lay

Dawei Lay
ARTIST
Dawei Lay
BORN
Dawei, Tanintharyi Division in 1982
EDUCATION
State School of Fine Arts in Yangon in 2001
DETAIL

He is a young and aspiring artist that focuses on artworks that are accented with bold and strong statements about Burmese agricultural everyday life. 
Dawei Lay has done 5 solo shows and participated in more than 50 group shows locally and internationally, he also made a name for himself with his 2011 exhibition ‘A Certain Stillness’. Since then, he has had a solo show in Sweden and has exhibited in Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, and the USA.  
He is one of the artists who participated in the “Poetry of Brush and Ink”, Taiwan-Myanmar Art and Culture Exchange Exhibition that was held at the Nawaday Tharlar Gallery in 2018, Yangon.  

2007
3rd Prize winner of the Tun Foundation Bank Art Award
2008
Final List paintings of Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards, River Gallery
2009
Final List paintings of Tun Foundation Art Awards
2010
Fourth Prize Winner of Tun Foundation Bank Art Awards