Gonkar Gyatso, My Identity - 2003 - color photograph - 19 x 25½ inches - Collection of Fabio Rossi, UK (image © the artist, text © CU Art Museum)

Gonkar Gyatso, My Identity - 2003 - color photograph - 19 x 25½ inches - Collection of Fabio Rossi, UK (image © the artist, text © CU Art Museum)

Gonkar Gyatso, My Identity - 2003 - color photograph - 19 x 25½ inches - Collection of Fabio Rossi, UK (image © the artist, text © CU Art Museum)

Gonkar Gyatso, My Identity - 2003 - color photograph - 19 x 25½ inches - Collection of Fabio Rossi, UK (image © the artist, text © CU Art Museum)

Gonkar Gyatso
Gonkar Gyatso was born in Lhasa, Tibet, and studied fine art at the Central Arts Academy in Beijing, China, and at Central St. Martins and the Chelsea School of Design in London, UK. Gonkar is the founder of Sweet Tea House (London), the first gallery in Europe devoted to showcasing contemporary Tibetan Art. He has exhibited in London, Oxford, Zurich, Helsinki, New Delhi, New York, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. He has been a recipient of the Leverhulme Fellowship in 2003 as an Artist-in-Residence at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, as well as a fellow at the Library of Tibetan Works & Archive, Dharamsala, India for traditional Tibetan painting studies. Gonkar currently lives and works in London. (source www.asianart.com)