* 1968 State Annual Art Exhibition, Jubilee Hall, Rangoon, Burma. Selected Exhibitions: * Group Show - a.Muse Gallery - San Francisco, California * 1964 State Annual Art Exhibition, Envoy Hall, Rangoon, Burma.
He conducts art workshops and forums at the Htanyeiknyo Art Center in Mandalay and is a member of the modernist New Zero Art Group. He has since returned annually and holds annual one-man shows and group shows both in Rangoon and Mandalay. In 2001, Taik returned to Burma and had his first solo exhibition there after 30 years in America. On viewing his first one-man show at the San Francisco Mission Cultural Center in 1981, Tom Albright commented in the San Francisco Chronicle that Aung Aung’s paintings “…suggest some of the strange stage sets of Francis Bacon carried to a greater degree of abstraction…". Taik has exhibited widely and with success internationally, including in Japan, Brazil, Mexico and Burma and in the United States in Arizona, New York and California and elsewhere. Seeking greater artistic autonomy, Taik left Burma and immigrated to the United States in 1972, where he continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Taik exhibited successfully throughout Burma and Japan in the 1960s but as his work moved in a more abstract and philosophical direction, the government put increasing pressure on him to conform to representational norms and officially approved subject matter. Considered one of the pioneers of modern art in Burma (Myanmar), Aung Aung Taik first attended the State Academy of Art in Rangoon and studied under two of Burma's leading artists, U Ba Kyi and U Ngwe Gaing. AUNG AUNG TAIK (Burmese, born 1948) TWO BURMESE DANCERS Oil on Canvas 63 x 88 Inches Signed Lower Left, "Aung Aung Taik" and Dated 1981 Exhibited: San Francisco Cultural Center, 1981 A major work by this celebrated Burmese Modernist that was exhibited at the artist's first one-man show in the United States, held at the San Francisco Mission Cultural Center in 1981.
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