Aay Preston-Myint
American artist, Oakland Calif. and Chicago
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| Intro | American artist, Oakland Calif. and Chicago | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| is | Artist Printmaker Teacher Deejay Musician | |
| Work field | Arts Academia Business Music | |
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| Birth | 1981, New York City, United States of America | |
| Age | 44 years |
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Biography
Aay Preston-Myint (born 1981) is a visual artist and art educator based in Oakland, California. Preston-Myint was born in New York City, 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. Preston-Myint was a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently 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 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.