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Karma Phuntsok | |
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ཀརྨ་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ | |
Born | 1952 (age 71–72) |
Nationality | Australian |
Karma Phuntsok (Tibetan : ཀརྨ་ཕུན་ཚོགས་, Wylie : karma phun tshogs; born 1952 in Lhasa, Tibet) is a Tibetan painter.
He fled Tibet with his family after the uprising against the Chinese in 1959, escaping into India as refugees. He studied drawing and painting through his school years in India. In 1973 Karma studied thanka painting with a master of traditional Tibetan thanka painting in Nepal. Since then he has been making paintings based on Tibetan Buddhist deities.
In 1981 Karma migrated to Australia, and now lives in the bush north of Kyogle with his wife and son.
Karma's paintings are collected worldwide, and published in various books and magazines. His recent paintings are mostly experiments, interweaving traditional techniques and symbols, with modern inspirations.
In 1959, he became a refugee after the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Between 1960 and 1970, he attended school in Northern India. In 1973, he had an apprenticeship with a master of traditional Tibetan Thanka painting in Nepal. In1974, he became a full-time professional Thanka painter. In 1980, he migrated to Australia.
Lowe Art Museum (Miami, USA), Perc Tucker Regional Gallery (Townsville, Australia), Queensland Art Gallery, Melbourne University, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Amnye Machen Institute (Dharamshala, India) Various Buddhist Centres worldwide
Tuition and courses have been given to many private individuals, communities and Commonwealth Youth Support Schemes, since coming to Australia. Collaborative works (mostly with Tim Johnson since 1992) have appeared in various exhibitions and publications (not listed here).[ citation needed ]
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