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Bio 

 

Ben Paljor Chatag is a Tibetan American contemporary multi-disciplinary artist.

He was born in Lhasa, Tibet, lived in India as a refugee and now calls the United States his home. His practice explores Tibetan cultural ideas in the context of contemporary social, cultural and political challenges. Ben has also studied traditional Tibetan Thangka painting in Northern India. Currently, Ben is living in Miami.

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Education

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2020  M.F.A. Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School of Art

 

2015   B.A. Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY 

 

Exhibitions

 

2022   Oolite Arts "Home+Away" Artisits-in-Residence Exhibition, A Group show, Patton-Malott Gallery, 

             Snowmass, CO

 

2020   Im.migration, A Group Show, Temporaryroom online, Baltimore, MD                                                                             

2020   Mount Royal School of Art Fall Show, Group Thesis Show, MICA online, Baltimore, MD                                                                                                                     

2020   Mount Royal School of Art Fall Show, A Group Show, Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD                                                                    

2020   We the People, A Group Show, Main O Gallery, Baltimore, MD                                                                                                         

2019    Opening Doors, A Group Show for Fellows, MICA, Baltimore, MD                                                                                                   

2019    Mount Royal School of Art Fall Show, A Group Show, Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD                                                                       

2019    Psychogeography, A Group Show, Hewitt Gallery, New York, NY                                                                                                       

2019    Going Beyond, Solo Show, part of Tricycle Film Festival, Here Now Space, New York, NY               

 

2018    Timonian, A Group Show, Riggs Gallery, Baltimore, MD                                                                                                                      

2017    Trajectories, A Group Show, Hewitt Gallery, MMC, New York, NY                                                                                                   

2017    Suffering & Cessation, Solo Show, Yasher Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY                                                                                      

2016   Alumni Art Exhibition, Hewitt Gallery, MMC, New York, NY                                                                                                   

2015   Senior Art Exhibition, Hewitt Gallery, MMC, New York, NY                                                                                                            

2015   Senior Thesis Art Exhibit, Hewitt Gallery, MMC, New York, NY     

 

Residencies                                                                                            

                         

February-March, 2022   Oolite Arts' Home and Away Residency: Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO

 

July, 2021                         77Art Residency, Rutland, Vermont  

                                                                               

Summer 2013                   Thangde Gatsel Tibetan Painting Residency, Dharamsala, India.                                                                                      

Curatorial Projects

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Sept 2021-Dec 2021         Transforming Minds: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg 1989-1997,

(ext- February 14,2022 )   Co-Curator, Tibet House Gallery, New York, NY