Gonkar Gyatso
was born in 1961 in Lhasa and studied Fine Art in Beijing and
London.
He is the founder of the contemporary Tibetan art gallery The
Sweet Tea House and is currently based and working in London. He
has been selected to take a part in the 53th Venice Biennial
2009.
His work has been internationally published and exhibited in
galleries and museums including The Chinese National Art Gallery
(Beijing), The Kangra Museum (India), The Glasgow Gallery of Modern
Art (Scotland), the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Wereld
museum Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Colorado University Art Museum
and Collections (USA). Works by Gyatso are now held in the Newark
Museum (USA), the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford), Queensland Gallery
of Modern Art (Australia), Burger Collection (Switzerland),
Rossi&Rossi (London), Red Gate Gallery (Beijing), The Newark
Museum (New York), and numerous private collections.
Having lived in Tibet, China, India and the West, Gyatso's art
proposes insightful statements on cultural hybridity of
globalization as well as the sea change of the world yet to
come.