Born in 1968 in Kathmandu, Tsherin Sherpa lives and works in California.
Read MoreSherpa studied traditional Tibetan thangka painting from the age of twelve under the guidance of his father, Master Urgen Dorje, a renowned thangka artist from Ngyalam, Tibet. After six years of intense formal training, he left to study Mandarin and computer science in Taiwan. Three years later, he returned to Nepal working with his father in numerous projects that included painting thangkas and monastery murals.
In 1998 he moved to the USA working as a thangka artist and as an instructor at several Buddhist centers in California. In recent years his emphasis has shifted from traditional subjects to more contemporary concerns, including imagining what traditional Tibetan spirits would now look like if they too had left Tibet and journeyed with him to California. His technique is precise and as immaculate as ever, but the new Tibeto/Californian spirits are possessed of a revitalised energy: some depicted as children, others shown as quaintly demonic or possessed of a cocksure sexiness. Often he appropriates globalised icons and logos of mass culture and luxury branding, taken from the internet, in a style he calls CyberPop.
In 2010 he was featured in the groundbreaking museum show in Beijing The Scorching Sun of Tibet, as well as the landmark Rubin Museum show Tradition Transformed - Tibetan Artist’s Respond, in New York. In 2012 he had his first solo show at Rossi & Rossi, London.
Ocula Magazine was on-site to highlight some of the emerging and mid-career artists to watch at Art Basel Hong Kong 2022.
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Hong Kong South Island Art Day takes place on 24 September 2016 in the South Island Cultural District with a packed programme of exhibitions, tours and performances. Art Radar highlights five major events taking place from 12pm to 8pm. 1. translatio — Charbon art space The young Charbon exhibition space will be...
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Running until 21 January 2016 at Rossi & Rossi in London, 'Active Blur' features recent works by Tibetan-Nepalese artist brothers Tsherin Sherpa and Tulku Jamyang. The exhibition grapples with the tensions between traditional Buddhist philosophy and globalised mass culture in unique ways. Sherpa and Jamyang’s practices share...
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On display from 21 November 2015 to 10 April 2016 at Brisbane’s Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), this year’s Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art has a special focus on the role of performance with live performances, video, kinetic art, figurative painting and sculpture. Many of the artworks explore...
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