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Born in 1971 in Lhasa.
EDUCATION
1999-2000
MA (distinction) Fine Art. Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
1980-1984
BA Hons, Traditional Chinese Painting. The Department of Fine Art, Central Institute of Nationalities, Beijing, China
Currently lives and works in New York, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University. Brisbane, Australia
2008
Gonkar Gyatso Retrospective, Rossi & Rossi at Art Dubai 2008, Dubai, UAE
2004
Tibetan Word - Art of Communication, The Sweet Tea House –Contemporary Tibetan Art Gallery, London, UK
2003
Leverhulme Fellowship and Artist Residence Show, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
1999
Contemporary Tibetan Art - Gonkar Gyatso, The Sontsen House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Gonkar Gyatso - Contemporary Tibetan Buddhist Art, International Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland
1987
Modern Tibet Art of Gyatso, The Revolution Exhibition Hall of Tibet, Lhasa, Tibet
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Shambala, Museum of Fine Art Boston, Boston (MA), USA
2011
Art Paris 2011, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery at Art Gallery 2011, Paris, France
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, USA
Drawn from Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria
Mid-Autumn Moon, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2010
Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Scorching Sun of Tibet, Songzhuang Art Center, China
Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2009
Two Voices, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Temping God, China Art Projects at The Depot Gallery, Waterloo, Australia
Making Worlds, The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Unbound: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
Tibet Art Now: On the Threshold of a New Future, Tibet Art Gallery, Temple, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tibetan Visions: Contemporary Painting from Tibet, ASIA Onlus, Rome, Italy
2008
A Question of Evidence, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Return to Lhasa - The Second Tibetan Contemporary Exhibition, 798 Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2007
Past & Present - Tibetan Art - 13th to 21st Century, Christopher Farr Courtyard Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Buddha and Christ - A Sense of Togetherness, The Sweet Tea House, London, UK
Consciousness and Form: Contemporary Tibetan Art, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK
Hobby Horse - Yeah, Yeah - Dada Asia, Avanthany Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Thermocline of New Art Asian Waves, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Lhasa - New Art from Tibet, 798 Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
Tibetan Encounters - Contemporary Meets Tradition, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, USA
2006
Oh! What a Beautiful Day - Peter Towse and Gonkar Gyatso's Shared Visions, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK
Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary Expressions of Tibetan Art, CU Art Museum & The Colorado Collection, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Tibet, Wereld Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Culture Bound - East Wing Collection VII, Courtauld Institute Of Art, London, UK
Rethinking Tradition - Contemporary Tibetan Artists in the West, Visual Art Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
2005
From Classic to Contemporary - Visions From Tibet, Rossi & Rossi and The Sweet Tea House – Contemporary, Tibetan Art Gallery, London, UK
1999
Limbers Due Tibet - Selected Group Show, Lyon City Gallery, France
1998
Visions From Himalaya Contemporary Tibetan Art - Selected Group Show, The Reality Room Gallery, Washington, USA
1989
The National Avant-Garde Fine Art Exhibition-98, The National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1985
The Sweet Tea House Artists' Group Show, The Sweet Tea House, Lhasa, Tibet
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