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Noted Tibetan artist Tsherin Sherpa presents BAMPFA’s 2023 annual endowed Lijin Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World. One of the most renowned Himalayan artists of our time, Sherpa will address present day Himalayan art and its connections with traditional arts.

Nepal-born Sherpa currently divides his time between California and Kathmandu, where he has established the Himalayan Art Initiative to foster the preservation of traditional thangka painting methods which he learned from his father, Master Urgen Dorje. His own contemporary work, featured in Endless Knot, draws from Tibetan Buddhist iconography to comment on his diasporic experience. Recently Sherpa was the featured artist at the Nepal Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. His first solo museum exhibition, originally presented at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, is currently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts

Above and Below

A special screening of Above and Below, a 34-minute documentary by filmmaker Sheri Brenner about Sherpa’s life and career, immediately follows the lecture. Brenner, the writer, producer, director and editor of Above and Below, is currently Adjunct Faculty and Media Lab Director in Media Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her credits include the national PBS broadcast of Sandpainting: Sacred Art of Tibet and In Beauty I Walk: The Navajo Way to Harmony.

Copresented by The South Asia Art Initiative and The Himalayan Studies Initiative at UC Berkeley