Born 1961 in Lhasa, Tibet
Lives in London and New York
education
1999-2000 Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, GB, MFA
1980-1984 Central Institute of Nationalities, Traditional
Chinese Painting. Department of Fine Art, Beijing,
China, BA
exhibitions
SOLO SHOWS
2011 Gonkar Gyatso Retrospective. Institute of Modern Art and
Griffith University. Brisbane, Australien
2008 Gonkar Gyatso Retrospective, Art Dubai 2008, Dubai, VAE
2004 Tibetan Word - art of communication, The Sweet Tea House
- Contemporary Tibetan art gallery, London, GB
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, GB
Leverhulme fellowships and Artist residence show, GB
1999 Contemporary Tibetan art - Gonkar Gyatso, The Sontsen House
Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 Gonkar Gyatso-Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist art,
International Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland
1996 The footprints of Budhha, International Cultural Centre,
Neu Dehli, India
1994 The Contemporary artist - Gonkar Gyatso, Anymacheng Instud,
Dharamsalla, India
1987 Modern Tibet Art of Gyatso, The Revolution Exhibition Hall
of Tibet, Lhasa, Tibet
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
2011 Drawn from Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, GB
2010 Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, Italy
Scorching Sun of Tibet. Songzhaung Art Center, Bejing,
China
A Man Is Not A Tree. Galerie Sherin Najjar, Berlin,
Germany
Roundabout. Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond. Rubin
Museum of Art, New York, USA
World of Thousands, Space Station, Beijing, China
The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious
Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Mapping Identity, kuratiert von Carol Solomon and Janet
Yoon, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2009 Tibet Art Now: on the threshold of a new future, Tibet Art
Gallery, Temple, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Making Worlds / Weltenmachen: Die 53. Venedig Biennale,
kuratiert von Daniel Birnbaum, Venice, Italy
Unbound: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, USA
2008 A Question of Evidence, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Return to Lhasa, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Buddha and Christ-a sense of togetherness, The Sweet Tea
House, London, GB
Consciousness and Form-Contemporary Tibetan art, Rossi &
Rossi, London, GB
Hobby Horse - Yeah, Yeah Dada asia, Avanthay Contemporary,
Zurich, Switzerland
ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary Expressions of
Tibetan Art, CU Art Museum & The Colorado Collection,
University of Colorado, USA
Modern Art from the Roof of the World-Contemporary Tibetan
Art, Siebengebirgsmuseum, Germany
Tibet, Wereld Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Courtauld Institute Of Art, Culture bound-East wing
collection VII, London, GB
2005 Die funf Tibeter-zeitgenossische tibetische Kunst, Gallery
Artraktion, Bern, Schwitzerland
2004 The Refuge Week. Leave to Remain Immigration and Diversity
Museum,London, GB
2003 Radiant Transmission. Contemporary Masterpieces of Tibetan
Buddhist Art, October Gallery, London, GB
Sanctuary - Contemporary Art & Human Right, Gallery of
Modern Art, Glasgow, GB
1999 Limbers Due Tibet, Lyon City Gallery, Lyon, Frankreich
1998 Visions From Himalaya Contemporary Tibetan Art, The Reality
Gallery, Washington, USA
1997 MA Degree Show 1997, Central St. Martin's College of Art
and Design, London, GB
1989 The National Avant-Garde Fine Art Exhibition-89, The
National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1987 The Sweet Tea House Artists Group Show, The Sweet Tea
House, Lahsa, Tibet
AWARDS / ARTIST IN RESIDENCIES
2011 Singapore Tyler Print Institute. Artist in Residence,
Singapore
2003 The Leverhulme Trust, London. Leverhulm fellowships and
Artist residence at Pitt Rivers Museum, University of
Oxford, GB
2001 Southern Art. Hampshire, England. Year of Art 2000 Artist's
residence, GB
1996 Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design, London Guest
Artist scholarship, GB
1991 Centre Academy of fine art & Crafts, Fellowship, for
contemporary crafts design, Beijing, China