San Francisco-based Tserin Sherpa (b. 1968, Kathmandu) masters the tradition of Tibetan thangka painting, trained from a young age by his father, Master Urgen Dorje, a renowned thangka artist from Ngyalam. His work is concerned with contemporary issues of the Tibetan diasporic experience, such as displacement and the loss of cultural heritage. Sherpa paints demons, spirits, and deities from Tibetan tradition that function as an exploration of the detachment and estrangement of the Tibetan diaspora towards their homeland. In his first solo exhibition in 2012 Tibetan Spirit, Sherpa interrogated “the way we understand objects today as works of art or for devotion.” His work draws from the same principles illustrated by Andy Warhol or Marcel Duchamp; essentially, he questions our changing perceptions of objects and ideas.
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