Poetry to the Glory

Credit Line: Gift of Ian Holliday 2023, Collection of SMU

Win Tint was born in Pyinmana (now in Naypyitaw Union Territory) in 1966. He attended the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon from 1983 to 1986. Since the mid-1980s, he has participated in local and international exhibitions. In 2004, he was the winner of the Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards.

The SMU Art Collection has over 70 paintings from Myanmar donated by Ian Holliday. A specialist in Burmese politics, Holliday assembled the Thukhuma Collection which comprises of Burmese paintings largely dating from the transitional decade of the 2010s, presenting multiple artistic perspectives on a society in reform. On display at School of Social Sciences and Li Ka Shing Library, the gifted paintings depict the people, culture and land, from the streets of Yangon and rural peripheries to political icons and indigenous deities.