Thet Thet (Diana) Nway Htwe
သက်သက်နွေးထွေး
thet2nh@gmail.com
Art Historian | Writer | Critic | Artist
School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Art History, Theory and Criticism (BAAH 2020)
Experience and Programs
Artists Need Art Historians (SAIC’s first Undergrad-led interdisciplinary academic journal) | Co-founder | 2019-2020
Art Institute of Chicago | Asian Art Research Intern | 2019-2020
National Museum Yangon, Myanmar | Conservation Intern | Summer 2019
Art Institute of Chicago | Mellon Summer Academy 2018
Burma Youth Leadership Program (USA) 2016
Curations
/Shi Exhibition | Goethe-Institut, Yangon, Myanmar | 12 November 2022 - 12 January 2023
If I say It’s True Seven Times by Moe Satt | Myanm/art gallery, Yangon, Myanmar | July-August 2020
Publications
Art, Politics, Propaganda, Myanmar: 2021 | Abstraction of Breathing: The Documentation Project of Myanmar Contemporary Art (Vol:3)| 2021
A Quick Guide to Viewing Contemporary Art: An Introduction to Abstraction of Breathing | Abstraction of Breathing: The Documentation Project of Myanmar Contemporary Art (Vol:3)| 2021
Two Burmese Crowned Buddhas at the Art Institute of Chicago: Genealogies of Kingship and Buddhahood in the Making of Burmese Buddhist Nationalism | Bachelor of Art History Final Thesis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 2020
The 3-in-1 Buddha: A Conversational Essay on the Tripartite Union of the Buddha, the King, and the Bodhisattva | Artists Need Art Historians: Pilot Edition 2020
Crowned and Bejeweled Buddha Seated on an Elephant Throne | Audio Stop (2:13”) | Art Institute of Chicago
The Golden Boy | Fwd: Museums “Death to Museums” 2019
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