Ngwe Kyi
ငွေကြည်
Born (1948-03-26) 26 March 1948
Yangon
NationalityBurmese
Educationstudied at the painting and sculpture school and Cartoon Aung Shein
Known for

Ngwe Kyi (ငွေကြည်; born 26 March 1948) is a cartoonist and painter from Myanmar.

His Lawka Hma Bya (လောကကြီးမှာဗျာ) and Myanma Yoya Hatha (မြန်မာ့ရိုးရာဟာသ, lit. 'Traditional Burmese Humor') comics are particularly successful.[1][2][3][4]

Biography and career

He was born on 26 May 1948 in Yangon. He graduated from the Royal Government of the Arts (SSFH) in 1969.[5]

He studied cartoon and painting art at the painting and sculpture school, Yangon and Cartoonist Aung Shein.[6] Since 1969, he has been drawing cartoons under the penname Ngwe Kyi and is a well-known cartoonist in Myanmar.

Painting career

During the year 1969 to 2007, he was involved in a series of local group exhibitions. In August 2007, his first solo exhibition was exhibited at the New Treasure Art Gallery.

References

  1. ↑ "ဝါရင့် ကာတွန်းဆရာကြီး ဦးငွေကြည်" (in Burmese).
  2. ↑ "ကြေးမုံ -ကာတွန်း (ငွေကြည်)".
  3. ↑ "ငွေကြည်" (in Burmese).
  4. ↑ "၂၁)ရာစုပင်လုံညီလာခံကို ကာတွန်းဆရာ ၁၀၀ကျော်ထောက်ခံ".
  5. ↑ Biography of cartoonist Ngwe Kyi posted at ForEverSpace.com.mm
  6. ↑ "ကာတွန်းဆရာကြီး ဦးအောင်ရှိန် ကွယ်လွန်" (in Burmese).
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