ARTIST BIO

Sonam Norbu Namsel (aka Tenzin Jigme) is a contemporary artist from Tibet, currently living and working in California. 

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Sonam’s work is both methodologically and thematically centered on memory and exile. He focuses particularly on the deep emotions tied to a close engagement with memory, especially the lingering images and sensations we carry in various forms from the past. He is primarily a painter, but maintains a sustained practice in graphic art, mixed media, and photography.

 

His most recent series of over 25 paintings explores his memories of home in Tibet and representations of the self across different circumstances, cultures, and spaces. These works were completed while living in India, and the Midwest, U.S. 

         

Art Training: MFA Painting from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi and BFA in Graphic Arts, College of Art, University of Delhi. 

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