Gonkar Gyatso was born in 1961 in Lhasa and studied fine art in Beijing and London. He is the founder of the contemporary Tibetan art gallery The Sweet Tea House and is currently based and working in London and New York. He has been selected to take a part in the fifty-third Venice Biennial 2009.
His work has been internationally published and exhibited in galleries and museums including The Chinese National Art Gallery (Beijing), The Kangra Museum (India), The Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (Scotland), the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Wereld Museum Rotterdam (Netherlands), and the Colorado University Art Museum and Collections (USA). Works by Gyatso are now held in the Newark Museum (USA), the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford), Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), Burger Collection (Switzerland), Rossi & Rossi (London), Red Gate Gallery (Beijing), and numerous private collections.
Gonkar Gyatso