Yin Ker is Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities and School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She owes her training in art history to the Sorbonne University. Her work focuses on Myanmar’s pioneer modern painter, Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990). Her research interests include “art” and “art history” as variable constructs, “art” and matrices of power and authority, and the intersections of ancient and modern methods of knowledge and image-making.