Through his travel encounters, Moe Satt sees the differences between performance artists from both open and those from more restricted societies. While contemplating the regional landscape of performance art and on the artistic mindset of individual countries in the region, he has developed a greater understanding of his own identity as an artist and as a person.
Moe Satt was born in Yangon, Myanmar in 1983. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he and his young family took refuge after the Myanmar military coup of 2021. Moe started creating art after graduating from East Yangon University where he earned a degree in Zoology in 2005. In the 2000s he and others spearheaded a new generation of emerging contemporary Burmese artists.
In 2008, he founded and organized Beyond Pressure, an international festival of performance art in Myanmar. As a performance artist, Moe has performed in galleries and also on the streets of Yangon. He has been actively participating in live arts festivals in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and on the international stage.
Moe Satt was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Asia Art Award 2015 and participated in the 2nd CAFAM Biennale at CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, China, in 2014. In 2010, Moe Satt curated On/Off: Myanmar Contemporary Art Event at The Almaz Collective in Vietnam; in 2011, he curated Forward/Backward: 8 Myanmar Second-Wave Contemporary Artists at H Galleryin Bangkok, Thailand; in 2014 he curated General / Tiger / Gun at Rebel Art Space in Bangkok, Thailand. He writes regularly on art in Myanmar and contributes to magazines across Southeast Asia.