Losang Gyatso

Losang Gyatso was born in Tibet and grew up in Britain. After studying Tibetan painting in a Tibetan refugee community in India for two years he moved to the San Francisco in 1974 where he went to art school. After working in the art industry for 16 years, he now focuses on his personal artwork and co-founded the Mechak Centre for Contemporary Tibetan Art.

His work evolves around Tibetan culture in all its aspects, how he relates to it for identity and sustenance, having lived outside Tibet for most of his life. He is inspired by ideas rather than physical subject matter; with his work he aims to move towards the universal and away from the particular.

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