Thiang Uk
b. 1993, Hakha, Myanmar Lives and works in Baltimore, MD
EDUCATION
| 2023 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| 2020 | MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 2017 | BFA, Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 2014 | AA, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | Breathing Surfaces, Silber Art Gallery, Goucher College, Towson, MD |
| Shadow’s Edge, Bureau, New York, NY |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | Fifteen-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Bureau, New York, NY (forthcoming) |
| New Voices: Julia Callis, Jen P. Harris, Claudia Peña Salinas, Thiang Uk, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH | |
| 2024 | Scorched Petals to Pages, The Nicholson Project, Washington, DC |
| Leftovers, Island Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2023 | Breaking Ground: Art About the Earth, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD |
| 2022 | Manifest Presence, Catalyst Contemporary, Baltimore, MD |
| If You’re Here, You Belong, 11: Eleven Gallery, Washington, DC | |
| A Journey Not Soon Forgotten, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Arlington, VA | |
| Vibrations, Caroline Street Chapel, Baltimore, MD | |
| 2021 | Transmogrify, Catalyst Contemporary, Baltimore, MD |
| 2020 | Im.migration, Online Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| 2019 | Incubus This, Fred Lazarus IV Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| Jennifer Payne & Thiang Uk, Mills Art Gallery, Orlando, FL | |
| June Group Show, Jane’s Art Center, New Smyrna Beach, FL | |
| 2017 | BFA Exhibition, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Between Fact and Fiction, Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL |
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS
| 2025 | Tee, Ian. “Fresh Faces: Thiang Uk,” Art & Market (A&M), March 26, 2025. |
| Tee, Ian. “Painting, shape-shifting, between spaces,” Art & Market (A&M), March 26, 2025. | |
| Waisnis, Edward. “Thiang Uk’s Migratory Paintings,” Whitehot Magazine, March 23, 2025. | |
| Owen, Maria. “Thiang Uk’s Contradictions in Harmony: ‘Shadow’s Edge’ at Bureau,” Impulse, March 23, 2025. | |
| 2024 | Spratt, Camryn. “Sean Kelly Gallery |
| “Meet Thiang: Painter, Artist & a Teacher,” Shoutout LA, May 20, 2024. | |
| 2023 | “Studio Visit: Thiang Uk,” Inertia, April 14, 2023. |
| 2022 | “Farley, Michael Anthony. “Gallery Roundup: The Parlor, C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Catalyst Contemporary,” BmoreArt, December 2, 2022. |
| 2021 | “Paintings & Writing from The LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting in Quarantine, Class of 2021.” Archipelago, 149-162, 2021. |