Tsering Nyandak Exhibitions and Events

Tsering Nyandak (b. 1974, Lhasa) is a contemporary Tibetan artist based in Lhasa. A largely self-taught artist whose artistic career was poetically launched by a torn book on Vincent Van Gogh’s letters to Theo, his art is centred around sensual expression and the affinity we feel as human beings.

The fragility and immaterial nature of human emotions as well as the tensions of living in contemporary Tibet are often reflected by the use of symbolic imageries such as balloons and ladders. Ballon in particular represent the ephemeral moment when your heaviness and emptiness resides, whereas ladders signify the Sisyphean nature of human ambition.

Since 2006, female figures have appeared in a large body of his works. For Nyandak, these feminine figures represent his own exploration into femininity. With these figures placed in the foreground against barren landscapes, the artist invites the viewer to fully emerge themselves into the painting without exterior influences.