Oct 13, 2025 - Oct 23, 2025
Details: Sniffed Image, Acrylic Gold on Foamcore Board, 40”x32”, 2012
Description: This bold, eye-catching painting by Kunsang Gyatso, a rising contemporary Nepali artist, combines traditional Tibetan painting techniques and motifs with modern, pop-art and graffiti aesthetics which together appear to juxtapose ancient tradition with glaring modernity, perhaps a reference to Gyatso’s own personal journey from the quiet mountains of rural Nepal to the busy streets of New York City.
About the Artist: Kunsang Gyatso was born in the Himalayan region of Helambu in Nepal, home to the indigenous Hyolmo community, an ethnic Tibetan group. His art practice is informed by his layered history of migration, first from the village community to Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, and later to the United States. Working across varied media, his work interweaves interests in abstraction, materiality, ritual, tradition, ecology, and personal history.
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