Beyond the Threshold: Tibetan Contemporary Art

"Beyond the Threshold" highlights the diversity of contemporary Tibetan creative expression, presenting works from ten artists based around the world. Born between the 1950s and 1990s, these artists are translating their experiences and insights for global audiences, driving Tibetan art into new territory by repurposing familiar imagery, providing commentary on consumer culture, and engaging social issues. Simultaneously, Tibetan and non-Tibetan viewers alike are provided space, where they are invited to discern and determine meanings for themselves, and to consider their own assumptions. Drawn from private collections and made available by the artists themselves, the objects are accompanied by bilingual English-Tibetan object labels, many of which incorporate quotes from the artists that convey the motivations and intentions behind their work.