Gonkar Gyatso

(Tibetan, born 1961)

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Gonkar Gyatso

Buddha in Modern Times

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Gonkar Gyatso

God Series IV, 2008

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Gonkar Gyatso

Buddha Sakyamuni

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Gonkar Gyatso

Eight is beautiful, 2009

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Gonkar Gyatso

The Shambala of the Modern Times, 2009

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Gonkar Gyatso

Summer Buddha 2007, 2009

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Gonkar Gyatso

Buddha in our times, 2010

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Gonkar Gyatso

Holy Moly I, 2015

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Gonkar Gyatso

Holy Moly II, 2015

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Gonkar Gyatso

Holy Moly III, 2015

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Gonkar Gyatso

Grey Tara, 2017

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Biography

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
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)
Selected Works: New Acquisitions from the QUT Art Collection, Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane, AUS
Seeking Shambala, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Boston, MA
2011
London Art Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Islington, London
25th London Original Print Fair, TAG Fine Arts, Royal Academy, London
AAFNYC, TAG Fine Arts, New York City
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia