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Tenzing Rigdol (born 1982) is an American contemporary artist. He is known for his art installations like the one involving 20,000 kg of Tibetan soil in Dharamshala, fostering cultural exchange through the Dialogue Artist Residency, and contributing to the documentary film Bringing Tibet Home.
Tenzing Rigdol is a contemporary Tibetan artist whose work ranges from painting, sculpture, drawing and collage, to digital, video-installation, performance art and site specific pieces.
Dec 6, 2023 · Rigdol uses a combination of acrylic paint, pastel, and pieces of manuscript pages assembled on paper to create a complex rendering of a multi-armed, multi-headed deity—over seven feet tall—who emerges between the interlocking edges of a grid-like overlay.
Dazzling and intricately layered, Tenzing Rigdol's works blend traditional Buddhist iconography with contemporary elements to address his own diasporic history. Nepalese by birth, the thirty-nine-year-old artist identifies as Tibetan, as the son of political refugees, and as American through citizenship granted later in life.
In Pin drop silence, Avalokiteshvara is shown in his eleven-headed form, a reference to his head splitting into several parts in order to more fully observe the world and disseminate compassion. Unlike traditional imagery of Avalokiteshvara, however, none of Rigdol’s Avalokiteshvara’s heads are given a face.
Sep 27, 2019 · A series of burning Buddha paintings by artist Tenzing Rigdol is a cry against private censorship and public indifference toward self-immolations in Tibet.
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Tenzing Rigdol’s figure of Avalokiteshvara stands in a radiant mandorla, burning with the light of his enlightenment or nonexistence, while his eleven heads comment on realms of knowledge and simultaneous realization.
