Nge Lay (b. 1979) was born in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar (ex-Burma), and graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Culture in Yangon. In August 2021, as a result of the repressions that followed the revolution in her country, she fled to Paris. Nge is a feminist artist who works in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture and photography. Her projects are an intensely personal reflection of her experience of living in Myanmar society which reveals particular socio-political issues related to the notion of memory, education and gender. The artist was a finalist of the Sovereign Asia Art Prize 2011 and 2020 and has participated in 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (2015/16), Bangkok Art Biennale (2018) and Documenta 15 in Kassel (2022), Germany. Her artworks have been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Singapore Art Museum and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan.