Gonkar Gyatso
Artist
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| Born: | 1961 |
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| Country: | Tibet |
Gonkar Gyatso was born in 1961 in Lhasa, Tibet. He graduated from the Fine Art Department of the Central Institute of Nationalities, Beijing and from the Chelsea Art & Design College, London.
He is the founder of The Sweet Tea House - a contemporary Tibetan art gallery in East London. He was the recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2003 and became ‘Artist in Residence' at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
His work has been internationally published and exhibited in galleries and museums including The Chinese National Art Gallery (Beijing), The Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (Scotland), the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Weleld Museum Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Colorado University Art Museum and Collections (USA).