Aay Preston-Myint (born 1981) is a visual artist and art educator. He is based in

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, California.

About

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

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. The Chicago Art Book Fair has been held annually since 2017 and emerged from the ''No Coast'' publishing imprint. 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."

Exhibitions

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

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, 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

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