GADE is a leading Tibetan Artist, Art Professor and Curator with 30+ years of experience in painting, and lecturing on finding one’s voice through contemporary art. Gade’s creative concept is based on the “Tibetanized background”, and continues the first-perspective Tibetan art, still using traditional Tibetan Thangkas, murals, Tibetan Buddhism-related materials, composition, style and other elements.

He is an active, worldwide exhibiting artist with a portfolio of work available upon request. Gade currently lives and works in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

Gade's works have won the Bronze Award of China National Art Exhibition and Special Award of China Fine Brushwork Painting Exhibition, and the TAR Art Exhibition Silver Award.

His works have been collected by many museums and galleries, including: National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Rubin Museum (New York, USA), White Rabbit Art Museum (New South Wales, Australia), and the Colorado Museum of Fine Arts (USA) Colorado).

Gade has held solo and group exhibitions in various art institutions at home and abroad, such as: Rossi & Rossi Gallery (London, Hong Kong), Borlie Gallery (Beijing), Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Shanghai Hushen Gallery (Shanghai), Berkeley Art Museum (California), Liliu Art Museum (Taiwan), Art 14 (London), Siebengebirgs Museum (Königswinter), Doris Mccarthy Art Museum (Toronto), Red Gate Gallery (Beijing), Gentun Chompei Contemporary Art Gallery (Lhasa), Valencia Museum of Modern Art (Valencia), and Elsa Mott Ives Gallery (New York).

Gade was selected for many international biennials, 2012 "18th Sydney Biennale" (Sydney, Australia), 2014 "Osaka, Japan Dojimagawa Biennale" (Osaka, Japan),
2016 3rd CAFAM Central Academy of Fine Arts Biennale Exhibition (Beijing).

Timeline:

1971, Born in Lhasa, Tibet
1990, Won First prize award in Traditional Chinese painting Exhibition held in Beijing
1991, Won Silver prize in TAR Art Exhibition
1991, Graudated from the School of Fine Arts, Tibet University in Lhasa, with a degree in Traditional Chinese Realistic Painting
1992, Admitted to the Master of Arts programme at the Central Academy of Arts as a student assistant
1994, Won outstanding nominee prize at the 8th National Art exhibition
2001–2002, Artist-in-residence in New York
2003, Artist-in-residence at the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Centre in North Uist, Scotland

Currently a lecturer in the School of Fine Arts, Tibet

Source/Submitted by: Mark Selker