Tenzing Rigdol 丹增熱珠
Profile/CV
Education
2005 BFA (Painting and Drawing) and BA (Art History), University of Colorado, Denver, USA
2003 Diploma in Tibetan Traditional Thangka Painting, Tibet Thangka Art School, Kathmandu, Nepal, under the tutelage of Gen Phenpo Tendhar and Tenzin Gawa
2002 Tibetan Traditional Sand Painting and Butter Sculpture, Shekar Chorten Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, under the tutelage of Lama Thupten
1999 Tibetan Traditional Collage and Thangka Art, under the tutelage of Tsering Yankyi
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 “Change is the Eternal Law”, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2013 “Darkness into Beauty”, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK*
2012 “Tenzing Rigdol”, Art Stage Singapore, Rossi & Rossi, Singapore
2011 “Our Land Our People”, in collaboration with Rossi & Rossi, site-specific installation, TCV Dharamshala, India
2009 Experiment with Forms, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK*
All exhibitions with published catalogues have been marked with an asterisk *
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 “Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora”, Asia Society, New York, USA
2016 “Image-In Tibet”, La Lanterns, Rambouillet, France
2016 Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
2015 “Tibet Art Now”, Fracis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 “Transcending Tibet”, Trace Foundation with Art Hub, Rogue Space Chelsea, New York, U.S.A
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, Netherlands
2015 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
2015 Busan Biennale, Sea Art Festival
2014 “KORA”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, U.S.A.
2014 “Parallel Realities”, Arndt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014 “Tenzing Rigdol- Offerings, Performance”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, U.S.A.
2014 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, U.S.A.
2014 “A Time for Dreams”, the IV Moscow International Biennale, Moscow Museum of Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Impermanence,” Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2014 “Our Clouded Hills”, Art-14, London, United Kingdom
2014 “Tibet-India: Buddhist Tradition & Transformations”, The Metropolitan Museum of the Art, New York, U.S.A.
2013 “Same Difference”, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013 “In-between”, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013 “Anonymous-Contemporary Tibetan Art”, The Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT, U.S.A
2013 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
2012 “Victory - Triumph in Classical and Contemporary Asian Art”, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011 “Roundabout: Face to Face”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 “Tibetan Contemporary Art - Tantric Vision in Modern Self-expression”, Tibet House Gallery, Tibet House, New York, U.S.A
2011 “Tibetan Contemporary Art”, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery with Rossi & Rossi, Estonia
2011 “Tibet.Art.Now.” Tibetan Art between Tradition and Modernity, Palazzo Nerucci, Rome, Italy
2011 “Tradition Transformed - Tibetan Artist Respond”, Crow Collection of Asia Art Museum, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
2011 “Beyond the Mandala”, Contemporary Art from Tibet, Volte Gallery with Rossi & Rossi, Mumbai, India
2011 “The Missing Peace”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A
2011 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, U.S.A.
2010 “The Missing Peace”, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
2010 “Roundabout”, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 “Boys and Girls Come out to Play”, Summer Exhibition, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010 “The Missing Peace”, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 “Scorching Sun of Tibet”, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 “Tradition Transformed - Rubin Museum of Art”, New York City, NY, U.S.A
2010 “Jaishri Abhichandani and Tenzing Rigdol”, Art HK 10, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, China
2009 “The Missing Peace”, The Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, CA, U.S.A.
2009 “50 x 50- Art for Tibet”, Live Painting by Tenzing Rigdol, Art in General, New York, U.S.A.
2009 “Exile Brushstrokes”, Maysles Cinema, Harlem, NY, U.S.A.
2009 “The Missing Peace”, Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain
2009 “Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. U.S.A.
2008 “Painting with Poetry”, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont, U.S.A.
2008 “New Works by Tenzing Rigdol and Palden Weinrab”, Dinter Fine Arts Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2008 “SH Contemporary 08”, The Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
2008 “Contemporary Tibetan”, Art Hong Kong 08, Hong Kong, China
2007 “The Missing Peace”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2007 “Past and Present - Tibetan Art -13th to 21st Century”, Christopher Farr Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
2007 “Consciousness and Form - Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Rossi & Rossi, London, United Kingdom
2007 “The Missing Peace”, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
2007 “The Missing Peace”, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
2007 “Tenzing Rigdol: Aesthetic Deconstruction”, Performance, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
2007 “The Missing Peace”, The School of Visual Art, New York, U.S.A.
2007 “Tibetan Encounters: Contemporary meets Tradition”, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2006 “The Missing Peace”, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2006 “Waves on the Turquoise Lake - Tibetan Contemporary Art”, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
2006 “The Missing Peace”, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA. U.S.A.
2005 BFA Thesis Show: Fusion Art Volume III, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
2005 “Young Guns”, Plus+Gallery, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
2004 UCDHSC Alumni Marriot Exhibition, Marriot Gallery, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
2004 Fusion Art Volume II, Auraria Library, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Fellowships and Residencies
2011 Iowa Writers Residency, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
2008 Rubin Museum of Art: Himalayan Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA
Public Collections
Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan
Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New York, NY
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool UK
Profile/CV
Education
2005 BFA (Painting and Drawing) and BA (Art History), University of Colorado, Denver, USA
2003 Diploma in Tibetan Traditional Thangka Painting, Tibet Thangka Art School, Kathmandu, Nepal, under the tutelage of Gen Phenpo Tendhar and Tenzin Gawa
2002 Tibetan Traditional Sand Painting and Butter Sculpture, Shekar Chorten Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, under the tutelage of Lama Thupten
1999 Tibetan Traditional Collage and Thangka Art, under the tutelage of Tsering Yankyi
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 “Change is the Eternal Law”, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong
2013 “Darkness into Beauty”, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK*
2012 “Tenzing Rigdol”, Art Stage Singapore, Rossi & Rossi, Singapore
2011 “Our Land Our People”, in collaboration with Rossi & Rossi, site-specific installation, TCV Dharamshala, India
2009 Experiment with Forms, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK*
All exhibitions with published catalogues have been marked with an asterisk *
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 “Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora”, Asia Society, New York, USA
2016 “Image-In Tibet”, La Lanterns, Rambouillet, France
2016 Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
2015 “Tibet Art Now”, Fracis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 “Transcending Tibet”, Trace Foundation with Art Hub, Rogue Space Chelsea, New York, U.S.A
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, Netherlands
2015 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
2015 Busan Biennale, Sea Art Festival
2014 “KORA”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, U.S.A.
2014 “Parallel Realities”, Arndt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014 “Tenzing Rigdol- Offerings, Performance”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, U.S.A.
2014 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, U.S.A.
2014 “A Time for Dreams”, the IV Moscow International Biennale, Moscow Museum of Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Impermanence,” Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2014 “Our Clouded Hills”, Art-14, London, United Kingdom
2014 “Tibet-India: Buddhist Tradition & Transformations”, The Metropolitan Museum of the Art, New York, U.S.A.
2013 “Same Difference”, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013 “In-between”, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2013 “Anonymous-Contemporary Tibetan Art”, The Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT, U.S.A
2013 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
2012 “Victory - Triumph in Classical and Contemporary Asian Art”, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011 “Roundabout: Face to Face”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2011 “Tibetan Contemporary Art - Tantric Vision in Modern Self-expression”, Tibet House Gallery, Tibet House, New York, U.S.A
2011 “Tibetan Contemporary Art”, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery with Rossi & Rossi, Estonia
2011 “Tibet.Art.Now.” Tibetan Art between Tradition and Modernity, Palazzo Nerucci, Rome, Italy
2011 “Tradition Transformed - Tibetan Artist Respond”, Crow Collection of Asia Art Museum, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
2011 “Beyond the Mandala”, Contemporary Art from Tibet, Volte Gallery with Rossi & Rossi, Mumbai, India
2011 “The Missing Peace”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A
2011 “Anonymous- Contemporary Tibetan Art”, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, U.S.A.
2010 “The Missing Peace”, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
2010 “Roundabout”, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
2010 “Boys and Girls Come out to Play”, Summer Exhibition, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010 “The Missing Peace”, Nobel Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 “Scorching Sun of Tibet”, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 “Tradition Transformed - Rubin Museum of Art”, New York City, NY, U.S.A
2010 “Jaishri Abhichandani and Tenzing Rigdol”, Art HK 10, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, China
2009 “The Missing Peace”, The Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, CA, U.S.A.
2009 “50 x 50- Art for Tibet”, Live Painting by Tenzing Rigdol, Art in General, New York, U.S.A.
2009 “Exile Brushstrokes”, Maysles Cinema, Harlem, NY, U.S.A.
2009 “The Missing Peace”, Fundacion Canal, Madrid, Spain
2009 “Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. U.S.A.
2008 “Painting with Poetry”, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont, U.S.A.
2008 “New Works by Tenzing Rigdol and Palden Weinrab”, Dinter Fine Arts Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2008 “SH Contemporary 08”, The Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
2008 “Contemporary Tibetan”, Art Hong Kong 08, Hong Kong, China
2007 “The Missing Peace”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
2007 “Past and Present - Tibetan Art -13th to 21st Century”, Christopher Farr Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
2007 “Consciousness and Form - Contemporary Tibetan Art”, Rossi & Rossi, London, United Kingdom
2007 “The Missing Peace”, Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
2007 “The Missing Peace”, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
2007 “Tenzing Rigdol: Aesthetic Deconstruction”, Performance, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
2007 “The Missing Peace”, The School of Visual Art, New York, U.S.A.
2007 “Tibetan Encounters: Contemporary meets Tradition”, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2006 “The Missing Peace”, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
2006 “Waves on the Turquoise Lake - Tibetan Contemporary Art”, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
2006 “The Missing Peace”, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, CA. U.S.A.
2005 BFA Thesis Show: Fusion Art Volume III, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
2005 “Young Guns”, Plus+Gallery, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
2004 UCDHSC Alumni Marriot Exhibition, Marriot Gallery, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
2004 Fusion Art Volume II, Auraria Library, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Fellowships and Residencies
2011 Iowa Writers Residency, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
2008 Rubin Museum of Art: Himalayan Artist Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA
Public Collections
Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan
Metropolitan Musuem of Art, New York, NY
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool UK