Detail: Gonkar Gyatso, who is represented by Rossi and Rossi of London, has been invited to participate in the 2009 Venice Biennale.
In his letter to the artist, the Director wrote: `In my view your work will be one of the central contributions to the exhibition and perfectly fits the theme of my show Fare Mondi / Making Worlds....'. The Rossis state that it is a great honour and timely recognition for Gonkar, who co-curated with them the landmark exhibition `From Classic to Contemporary: Visions from Tibet' in 2005. Since then the work of contemporary Tibetan artists has gained international.
Born in Lhasa in 1961, Gonkar studied fine art at the Central Arts Academy in Bejing and at Central Saint Martins and the Chelsea School of Design in London. His work is held in the Newark Museum, USA, the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, the White Rabbit Collection, Chippendale, the Burger Collection, Switzerland and Hong Kong, the Devi Foundation, India and the Crocker Art Museum, California, as well as in several major private collections in Europe, Australia, Asia and the US.