Untitled (Street Vendors)

Credit Line: Gift of Ian Holliday 2024, Collection of SMU

This painting is part of a series in which the artist focused on Yangon street scenes and pavement peddlers in particular. Here, he captured a disappearing scene of street vendors selling old books along a thoroughfare colloquially known as the university of the street. The artist himself spent much of his school years working with the booksellers, harbouring fond memories of the place.

Min Kyaw Swar (b. 1988, Taungoo, Bago Region) graduated from the State School of Fine Arts in Yangon in 2012. He also studied under U Pe Nyunt Wai and U Win Pe.