Gonkar Gyatso (Tibetan, born )

Timeline

1989–1991
Centre Academy of fine art & Crafts, Beijing, China. Fellowship for contemporary crafts design
1996
Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design, London Guest Artist scholarship
2001
Southern Art, Hampshire, England. Year of Art 2000 Artist’s residence
2003
The Leverhulme Trust, London. Leverhulm fellowships and Artist residence at Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Gonkar Gyatso was born in Lhasa in 1961 and studied traditional Chinese painting in Beijing. After leaving Tibet, he lived in a Tibetan exile community in Dharamsala where he met Peter Towse. In 1996 he received a full scholarship to study at Central Saint Martin’s; he later finished his master’s degree in art at London’s Chelsea Art College. He now lives in London where he has an art gallery named The Sweet Tea House – the first gallery in Europe devoted to showcasing contemporary Tibetan art. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and Northern America. Gyatso’s work charts the subtle shifts in identity and belonging caused by constant migration. Through diasporic experiences, he traverses the hybrid nature of resettlement, fusing different cultures and traditions.
Lives and works in the United Kingdom

Exhibitions

2014
London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Islington, London
2014
Tibet India, New Beginnings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2013
Haunch of Venison, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Three Realms, Institute of Modern Art, Queensland University Art Museum, Griffith University Artworks. Brisbane, Australia (solo)
2012
Selected Works: New Acquisitions from the QUT Art Collection, Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane, AUS
2012
Seeking Shambala, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Boston, MA
2011
London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Islington, London
2010
Multiplied Contemporary Editions Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Christie’s, London
2010
Scorching Sun of Tibet, Songzhuang Art Centre, China
2010
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
2010
World of Thousands, Space Station, Beijing, China
2010
The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2010
Mapping Identity, curated by Carol Solomon and Janet Yoon, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2010
A Man is not a Tree, Galarie Sherin Najjar, Berlin, Germany
2010
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2010
AAFNYC, TAG Fine Arts, New York City
2010
25th London Original Print Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Royal Academy, London
2010
London Art Fair, Islington, TAG Fine Arts, London
2009
10th Toronto International Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, London
2009
53rd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale
2009
24th London Original Print Fair, RA, TAG Fine Arts, London
2009
China Art Projects, Depot Gallery, Sydney, Australia, “Tempting God”
2009
DAC Gallery, Beijing, China, “Trading Meaning”
2009
Tibet Art Gallery, Temple, Amsterdam, “Tibet Art Now: on the threshold of a new future”
2009
Newark Museum, USA, “Unbounded: New Art for a New Century”
2009
24th London Original Print Fair, with TAG Fine Arts, London.
2008
Thyssen-Bornemilsza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. “A Question of Evidence”
2008
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China. “Return to Lhasa”.
2008
shContemporary 08, Shanghai, “ The Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair”
2008
Art Hong Kong 08, Hong Kong “ Contemporary Tibetan Art”
2008
Art Dubai 2008, United Arab Emirates. “ gonkar gyatso
2008
Art Dubai 2008, Dubai. “ Gonkar Gyatso Retrospective” (solo)
2007
Christopher Farr Courtyard Gallery, Los Angeles. “Past & Present - Tibetan art -13th to 21st Century”
2007
2007 The Sweet Tea House, London. “Buddha and Christ-a sense of togetherness”.
2007
Rossi & Rossi, London. “Consciousness and Form- Contemporary Tibetan art”
2007
Avanthay Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland. “ Hobby Horse – Yeah, Yeah Dada asia”
2007
Rossi & Rossi, London.“Consciousness and form – contemporary Tibetan art “
2007
ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. “Thermocline of new Art Asian Waves
2007
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China. “ Contemporary Tibetan Art at 798”
2007
Neuhoff gallery, New York. (Organized by Anna Maria and Fabio Rossi ). “ Tibetan encounters Contemporary meets tradition”
2007
inIVA, London. “Terrain”
2006
Rossi & Rossi, London. 2006 Rossi & Rossi, London. “Oh! What a beautiful day-Peter Towse and Gonkar Gyatso’s Shared visions”
2006
CU Art Museum & The Colorado Collection,University of Colorado, Boulder. “Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary Expressions of Tibetan Art”
2006
Siebngebirgsmuseum, Germany. “Modern Art from the Roof of the World-Contemporary Tibetan Art”
2006
Wereld Museum Rotterdam, Nederland. “Tibet”
2006
Courtauld Institute Of Art, London. Culture bound-East wing Collection VII
2006
Visual Art Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. ‘Rethinking Tradition-Contemporary Tibetan artists in the West”
2005
Gallery Artraktion, Bern, Switzerland. “Die funf Tibeter-zeitgenossische tibetische kunst”
2005
Rossi & Rossi and The Sweet Tea House-Contemporary Tibetan Art Gallery, London. “From classic to contemporary-vision From Tibet”.
2004
Immigration and Diversity Museum, London. “The Refuge Week” Leave to Remain Selected group show
2004
The Sweet Tea House – Contemporary Tibetan art gallery, London. “Tibetan Word – art of communication”. (solo)
2003
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford. Leverhulme fellowships and Artist residence show (solo)
2003
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland. “Sanctuary Contemporary Art & Human Rights”.
2003
October Gallery, London. “Radiant Transmission” Contemporary Masterpieces of Tibetan Buddhist Art”
2000
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.MA Degree shows 2000
1999
The Sontsen House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. “Contemporary Tibetan art – Gonkar Gyatso”. (solo)
1999
Lyon City Gallery, France. “Limbers Due Tibet” selected group show
1998
The Reality Room Gallery, Washington. “Visions From Himalaya Contemporary Tibetan Art” selected group show
1998
The Revolution Exhibition Hall of Tibet, Lhasa, Tibet. “Modern Tibet Art of Gyatso” (solo)
1997
International Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland. “Gonkar Gyatso - Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist art” (solo)
1997
Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design, London.‘MA Degree Show 1998”.
1996
International Cultural Centre, New Dehli, India.“ The footprints of Budhha” (solo)
1994
Anymacheng Instud, Dharamsalla, India. “ The Contemporary artist – Gonkar Gyatso” (solo)
1989
The National Art Gallery, Beijing. “The National Avant-Garde Fine Art Exhibition-98”
1985–1987
The Sweet Tea House, Lassa, Tibet. “The Sweet Tea House Artists Group Show”
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