Sodhon (b. 1971 in Lhasa, Tibet) is a self-taught Tibetan contemporary artist currently based in New York. His love for art combined with his artistic talents at a young age led him to work on numerous Tibetan decorative arts and crafts while he also had the opportunity to work with a group of highly talented artisans on a mural restoration project for one of the most important monasteries in Tibet all of which laid the foundation for his later works. He moved to Dharamsala, India in 1988 where he taught art at a Tibetan school for several years and later devoted himself to Tibetan Children’s book Illustrations and comics which serves as a critical medium to impart and to conserve Tibetan language and culture for younger generations. While working on his art, he continued to serve as the chief illustrator/cartoonist for various Tibetan journals and magazines before moving to New York in 2008.
His work has been exhibited internationally at reputed galleries and museums such as Tibet Museum, Rubin Museum of Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Palazzo Nerucci, Queens Museum, CU Art Museum and Rossi & Rossi Gallery among others.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Childhood Found in Memory, Latse, New York
2019 Tibet Open House, Prague
2006 Forms and Establishment, Tibet Museum, Dharamsala, India
2001 Life on the High Land, Dharamsala, India
1999 Remembering Tibet, Amnye Machen Institute, Dharamsala, India
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2015 Transcending Tibet, Rogue Space Chelsea, New York
2014 Impermanence, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 Anonymous Contemporary Tibetan Art, Queens Museum, New York
2013 In-Between, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, UK
2013 Anonymous:Contemporary Tibetan Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York
2012 Art for Tibet, New York
2011 Hero, Villain, Yeti - Tibet in Comics, Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2011 Tibet.Art.Now. Tibetan Art between Tradition and Modernity, Palazzo Nerucci, Italy
2010 Ancient Art in Modern City, International Center, New York
2009 Revival from the Residue-Tibetan Calligraphy Art, New York
2006 Waves on the Turquoise Lake:Tibetan Contemporary Art, CU Art Museum, Colorodo
LECTURE SERIES:
2003 Lectures on Tibetan contemporary art at Columbia University, Indiana University & Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library
PUBLICATIONS:
1990 - 2005 Illustration works on Tibetan children’s comics and storybooks : Soldier of Peace, Nichoe Sangpo, Bumo Youn-tso, Histoire de la vie du Bouddha, Vol II, Phayul