Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee

Tenzin Gyurmey Dorjee was born in 1987 in Kamrao village,  Himachal Pradesh. I am interested in exploring the paradoxes  present in ordinary things in my life. I focus on the concepts and  associations simple objects can carry. By exploring a theme with  different mediums of expression, I try to gain new insights about an  object that was previously mundane.

Most of the subjects in my  work are people who are close to me as family or friends or even  neighbors. I am interested in how global changes in culture,  politics, climate, science, etc can impact our local surroundings.  And my works are reactions to those global changes through my  personal stories. Most of my paintings are done on tarp sacks  commonly known as “drochak bureh” in the Tibetan community  (drochak means barley and bureh means sack). As refugee, most  of our basic food supplies come from USA aid in tarp sacks and  we have been using this material for various household purposes  for quite a long period of time. 

I was taught drawing in the Tibetan traditional style at the age of 6  by my father Tulku Troegyal. I majored in science in Himachal  Pradesh and then moved to Delhi for higher studies. I have been  practicing arts professionally since 2013. My studio practice is  currently based in Delhi.