Aay Preston-Myint
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| Born | 1981 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Known for | visual artist, art fair organizer |
| Awards | Fellowship award (2019), Kala Art Institute |
| Website | aay |
Aay Preston-Myint (born 1981) is a visual artist and art educator. He is based in Oakland, California.
About
[edit]Aay Preston-Myint was born in 1981 in New York City, New York. He has worked extensively in Chicago, Illinois, and is a co-founder of the Chicago Art Book Fair. The Chicago Art Book Fair has been held annually since 2017 and emerged from the No Coast publishing imprint.[1] Preston-Myint was a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and he is a program manager at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.
He founded Chances Dances, a party that "supports and showcases the work of queer artists in Chicago."[2][3][4]
Exhibitions
[edit]Aay Preston-Myint's solo exhibitions include At Night, I Think of You, held at the Threewalls Gallery in Chicago in 2013; Project #11, and held in 2018 at the 'sindikit gallery in Baltimore, Maryland in 2018. He had two solo exhibitions shows in 2019: Wormhole at Adler & Floyd in Chicago and X O at the Royal Nonesuch Gallery in Oakland, California.
References
[edit]- ^ Voon, Claire (2017-11-17). "Chicago Welcomes Its First Art Book Fair". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
- ^ Eler, Alicia (2013-05-29). "A Space Where Identity Politics Give Way to Queer Minimalism". Brooklyn, New York: Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ "Artist of the Week: Aay Preston-Myint". LVL3. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ Rosenberg, Tal (2017-11-16). "The inaugural Chicago Art Book Fair isn't for art-book people—it's for everyone". Chicago Reader. Chicago. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- 1981 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American artists
- 21st-century American artists
- African-American contemporary artists
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
- American gay artists
- American contemporary artists
- Artists from New York City
- Artists from Oakland, California
- 20th-century African-American artists
- 21st-century African-American artists
- 21st-century American LGBTQ people
- American art educators