Tenzing Rigdol

In addition to the below solo exhibitions, Tenzing Rigdol’s works have been included in numerous group exhibitions, including but not limited to Perilous Bodies: Ford Foundation Gallery, NY, USA(2019),Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Home and Abroad, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA, USA, Bild Macht Religion: Kunst zwischen Verehrung, Verbot und Vernichtung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany (2018); Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, Asia Society, New York, NY, USA (2017); Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO, USA (2015), Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale, South Korea (2015), Queens Museum, NY, USA (2014), Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT, USA, and Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, USA (2013) and A Time for Dreams, 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia (2014).

Selected Solo Exhibitions Dialogue, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong (2019); My World Is in Your Blind Spot, Tibet House US, New York, NY, USA, and Emmanuel Art Gallery, Denver, CO, USA (2019); Change Is the Eternal Law, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong (2015); Darkness into Beauty, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK (2013); Tenzing Rigdol: Art Stage Singapore, presented by Rossi & Rossi (2012); Our Land, Our People, site-specific installation at Tibet Children’s Village, Dharamsala, India, in collaboration with Rossi & Rossi (2011); Experiment with Forms, Rossi & Rossi, London, UK (2009).

Rigdol’s work is found in international collections including the Glenbarra Art Museum, Himeji, Japan; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; World Museum, Liverpool, UK; Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art in the Netherlands.[11]

Rigdol is featured in the documentary film Bringing Tibet Home , released in October 2013 at the International Film Festival in Busan in South Korea, which won the award of Jury des jeunes Européens at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in January 2014.

In 2010, with the Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu, he created an art work representing Liu Xiaobo that was shown December 10 with the participation of Richard Gere for the release of Nobel Prize of peace.

Tenzing Rigdol (born 16 January 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal) is a contemporary Tibetan artist and activist.

Tenzing Rigdol was born 16 January 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is best known for his installation in Dharamshala which consists of 20,000 kg of Tibetan soil from Shigatse. He is chiefly known for his contemporary pieces although he is also trained in the ancient art of thangka. . Ringdol is a graduate of the University of Colorado Denver College of Arts & Media. He holds a master's degree in philosophy and lives in the United States.