Gonkar Gyatso Curriculum Vitae

Born: Lhasa, Tibet
Nationality: British
Resident: London/ New York


Education:

1999-2000  M.A. (distinction) Fine Art. Chelsea College of Art & Design, London.
1980 - 84 B.A. Hones, Traditional Chinese Painting. The Department of fine art, Central Institute of Nationalities, Beijing, China.


Selected Solo Exhibition:

2010 Gonkar Gyatso, Rossi & Rossi, London
2008 Art Dubai 2008, Dubai. " Gonkar Gyatso retrospective".
2004 The Sweet Tea House - Contemporary Tibetan art gallery, London. "Tibetan Word - art of communication".
2003 Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford. Leverhulme fellowships and Artist residence show.
1999 The Sontsen House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. "Contemporary Tibetan art - Gonkar Gyatso".
1987 The Revolution Exhibition Hall of Tibet, Lhasa, Tibet. "Modern Tibet Art of Gyatso"


Selected Group Exhibition:

2010 The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precious Age, 17" Biennale Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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
2009 Two Voices, Jan Murphy Gallery, Bisbane, Australia
2009 Tempting God, China Art Projects at the Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Australia
2009 Making Worlds, The 53rd Venice Biennalem Venice, Italy
2009 Tibet Art Gallery, Temple, Amsterdam "Tibet Art Now: on the threshold of a new future"
2009 ASIA ONLUS, Rome, Italy "Tibetan Visions: Contemporary Painting from Tibet"
2008 Thyssen-Bornemilsza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria. "A Question of Evidence"
2008 Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China. "Return to Lhasa".
2007 Christopher Farr Courtyard Gallery, Los Angeles. "Past & Present - Tibetan art -13th to 21st century".
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 ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. "Thermocline of new Art Asian Waves".
2007 Neuhoff gallery, New York.  (organized by Anna Maria and Fabio Rossi ). " Tibetan encounters Contemporary meets tradition".
2006 Rossi & Rossi, London. "Oh! What a beautiful day-Peter Towse and Gonkar Gyatso's shred visions".
2006 CU Art Museum & The Colorado Collection, University of Colorado, Boulder. "Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary  Expressions of 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 Rossi & Rossi and The Sweet Tea House-Contemporary Tibetan Art Gallery, London. "From classic to contemporary-visions From Tibet".
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.
1989 The National Art Gallery, Beijing. "The National Avant-Garde Fine Art Exhibition-89".
1985-87 The Sweet Tea House, Lassa, Tibet. "The Sweet Tea House Artists Group Show".

 

Fellowships/Residence:

2010 Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore: Artist in Residence
2003  The Leverhulme Trust, London. Leverhulm fellowships and Artist residence at Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
2001 Southern Art. Hampshire, England. Year of Art 2000 Artist's residence.
1996 Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design, London Guest Artist scholarship. 
1989-91 Centre Academy of fine art & Crafts, Beijing, China. Fellowship, for contemporary crafts design.


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