His uncle and brothers ran a mixed art workshop, where he studied from the age of twelve.

When he was sixteen, he moved to Yangon to study for five years as an apprentice under the London-trained Ba Nyan,[1] whose works were primarily in a naturalistic and realistic vein.

In 1952 Aung Khin won first prize for an oil painting in a USIS-sponsored All Burma Competition,[4][5] and in 1960-61 he had several one-man shows in Mandalay and Yangon,[1][4] one of which was sponsored by the Burma-America Institute.

[4] Aung Khin's work largely reflected the European influence of the colonial-era Burmese artists.

[9] One of his more intriguing explorations was using abstract non-figurative painting as a means to express Buddhist concepts beyond the earthly (difficultly-visualized) realm,[10] or one might say life after death in Brahmaloka and Devaloka, asking "How shall I draw the abode of Man and Deva?