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Htein Lin.
War and Peace.
© Htein Lin. Reproduced with permission from the artist.
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Htein Lin.
Death Row. © Htein Lin.
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Born in 1966 in Burma's northern Irrawaddy Delta, Htein Lin is a former political prisoner whose painting depicts incarceration in Myanmar. Htein Lin joined political resistance in his early twenties at Rangoon University. This led him to join in armed resistance, guerrilla actions, flight out of Burma, fractional student political violence, and after betrayals of various kinds eventually repatriation back to Burmese authority. In later years he was jailed again, and for several years he continued his practice of performance art and figurative drawing for fellow prisoners. Htein Lin works in London now and sees himself as an artist, not a political activist.
