SHAMBALA OF THE MODERN TIMES, 2009
GONKAR GYATSO
silkscreen print in four parts
98.0 x 107.0 cm (overall)
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed with title below image
China Arts Project, Beijing
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2010
Tibet Art Now: on the threshold of a new future, Tibet Art Gallery, Temple, Amsterdam, 3 June – 6 July 2009 (another example)
Mapping Identity, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Philadelphia, USA, 19 March – 30 April 2010 (another example, illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 17)
Three Realms, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 25 February – 29 April 2012 (another example)
Seeking Shambala, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 6 March – 21 October 2012 (another example)
Smee, S., ‘In MFA Exhibit, Seeking Shambala, Everything is Illuminated’, The Boston Globe, Boston, 30 March 2012 (illus., another example)
‘Urban Legend’, Art & Antiques Magazine, Wilmington, USA, May 2012 (illus., another example)
Gonkar Gyatso lives and works in London, United Kingdom
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015 Janela, Migrating Forms and Migrating Gods, Kochi-Muziris Biennial, India
2014 Tibet India, New Beginnings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2013 Freedom, just another word... Mass Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA
2013 The Weight of History, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2012 Shambala, Museum of Fine Art Boston, Boston, USA
2012 Three Realms, Institute of Modern Art and Griffith University, Brisbane
2010 Tradition Transformed: Tibetan Artists Respond, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
2010 The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery/ Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2009 Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2008 A Question of Evidence, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2007 Thermocline of new Art Asian Waves, ZKM/Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 Tibet, Wereld Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands
1999 Limbers Due Tibet, Lyon City Gallery, France
1989 The National Avant-Garde Fine Art Exhibition-89, The National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
SELECTED LITERATURE
Wright, S. P., THREE REALMS: Gonkar Gyatso, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011
Gyatso, N., Gonkar Gyatso : la peinture tibétaine en quête de sa propre modernité, Harmattan, Paris, 2005
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Immigration and Diversity Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA
Newark Museum, New York, USA
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Queensland Art Gallery /Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
REPRESENTED BY
Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
TAG Fine Arts, London