Thiang Uk

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Thiang Uk was born in Myanmar in 1993. His family migrated to the United States in 2004 fleeing potential violence and the instability of Myanmar’s government. Uk’s paintings investigate notions of holding manifold identities, inhabiting ever-shifting landscapes, as well as exploring ancestral memory through  animism, metamorphosis, distance, mystery and the formality of painting. Uk is currently based in Baltimore, MD. He received his M.F.A. in the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), his B.F.A. at Hunter College in NYC in 2017, and also completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 2023.