2024 Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize recipient Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee shares the inspirations behind his work and what winning the inaugural prize means to him. The artist’s work explores the paradoxes present in the seemingly ordinary things in his life. As a second-generation Tibetan refugee, Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee uses different mediums to explore themes of displacement, belonging, and cultural heritage.
The Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize was established to support living artists and recognize the work of innovative individuals who have made a mark in creative and critically relevant dialogues between Himalayan art and contemporary life.
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Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee was born in 1987 in Kamrao Village, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is interested in exploring the paradoxes present in ordinary things and how global changes in culture, politics, climate, and science can impact local surroundings. His father, Tulku Troegyal, taught him drawing in the Tibetan traditional style at the age of six, and he has been practicing arts professionally since 2013. His studio practice is currently based in Delhi.
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