Saturday, May 24, 2014

PROFILE


AMARSAIKHAN  NAMSRAIJAV (b.1981)

Education & Membership

2000      MFA, Setgemj Design University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2005      Institute of Fine Art Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2006-     Member of Union of Mongolian Artists
2007-     Executive Director of Mongolian Nature Artists' Association

Solo Exhibitions

2022    'New Way' Mongol Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
2018      Motherland, UMA Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2014      Mongolia, Pearl Art Gallery Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2011      Roots, Red Mill Gallery, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, Vermont, USA
2008      Color & Melody, UMA Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2006      My Universe, Xanadu Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Group Exhibitions 
 
2023     Open Eyes' international artists residency Selenge, Mongolia
2022     Spirit of Gobi' Contemporary Art Festival
2022     Global Nomadic Art Project Mongolia III – 2022
2021      Nogoonbaatar international eco art festival, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2020     Global Nomadic Art Project – 2020 Mongolia
2019     Global Nomadic Art Project – 2019 ITALY
2019    Mongolian Transylvanian artists exchange program, Murun Khentii and Transylvania
2019      Bangla Biennale-2019,  West Bengal, Kolkata, India 
2018      Echigo Tsumari Triennial 2018, Tokamachi, Japan
2018      Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project Symposium, Taiwan
2018      Ulaanbaatar Art Festival, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2017      Beijing Biennale-2017, Beijing, China       
2017      Cheongju Biennale -2017    Cheongju, Korea  
2017      Geumgang Nature Art Biennale-2017   Gongju, Korea
2017      Ulaanbaatar Public Art Week, UB Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2017      Art and Satisfaction in Mentality, Contemporary Art Center, Mongolia
2016      Land Art - 360 Biennale 2016, Dariganga province, Mongolia
2016      Nord Art-2015, Büdelsdorf in Germany
2014-17 Best Work of the Year, UMA Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2013-15 Khukh Dorno, Huh Hot, Inner Mongolia, China
2012      Urban Narratives: New Contemporary Mongolian Art, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong
2012      Cultural Days of Mongolia     exhibition, Shanghai, China
2012      Sand Tsunami, for the World Day to Combat Desertification, Ulaanbaatar
2012      Art Camp with Blue Sun contemporary art center, Ulziit, Mongolia
2011      Asia and Rise, Sori Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010      Busan Biennale-2010, Busan Beach, Busan, Korea,
2009-11 Best Work of the Year, Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2008      Exhibition of Mongolian Artists, Som Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Residencies 
 
2023     Old Harbour Art Trail, international artist residency Jakobstad, Finland (2 weeks)
2023     Beaux Lieux-2023 Beaulieu-lès-Loches, France  (1 month)
2022     Fruga Art Trail international art symposium, Rab island Croatia, (3 weeks)
2022   Geumgang Nature Art Biennale-2022, Gongju Korea (1 month) 
2019     YATOO International Artist in Residence Program 2019 (1 month)
2018      Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan (1 month)
2014-18 Gangwon Environmental Installation Art, Seoul in Korea (2 weeks)
2017     Narrative Movements, Suri, Birbhum, West Bengal, India (2 weeks)                            2017      Land Art Mongolia international residency, Murun, Mongolia (2 weeks)
2016      ChengLong Wetlands International Environmental Art Project by Kuan Shu   Education Foundation Taiwan, (1 month)
2015      Nord Art-2015, International symposium, Büdelsdorf, Germany (2 weeks) 
2014      Art Omi, international Artists residency by Frances Greenburge Fellowship New  York City, USA (1 month)
2011      Vermont Studio Center Johnson, Vermont, USA (2 months)                                                       2010     Open To You, Open Apace Bae, Busan, Korea (2 months)
2010     Jara Island International Baggat Art 2010, Gapyeong Seoul, Korea (2 weeks)
2009     Time & Space, Nomadic Art Residency, Umnugobi, Mongolia (2 weeks)

Awards & Grants

2020      Samu Geza Dij Award from the Hungarian Academy of Arts
2020      Leading cultural worker of Mongolia 
2018      Prize of Union of Mongolian Artists, Mongolia
2018      Austronesian International Arts Award Honor Award, Taitung Art Museum, Taiwan
2016      Grant by Kuan Shu Education Foundation for Environmental Art Project, Taiwan
2011     Winner of Rubin Fellowships for Himalayan Artists, sponsored by the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, USA
2011     Third Place in the Brothers Blue Stain Art Project, Korea & Mongolia
2008     Third Place in the Tiger Translate Painting Contest, Mongolia



Mailing address:

Post Office Box-2645
Ulaanbaatar 15160, Mongolia
Phone: +976-88150315
Blog: art-amar.blogspot.com

Name of referees:

Moukhtar Kocache, Curator

Jane Ingram Allen, Curator

Ko Seunghyun,  Chief Commissioner of Yatoo, Korea
Tell: 041-853-8828  yatoo@hanmail.net



projects implemented

At the same time together with my artwork, I have been working as a general organizer and member of projects and programs that are successfully implemented by the “Mongolian Nature Artists' Association".

They are:

2020-2021-2022    "Global Nomadic Art Project -2020 Mongolia"  International artists program
                                                                                                      with Yatoo group, Korea

2019     "Mongolian Transylvanian artists exchange program" 
                                                Murun sum Khentii province Mongolia and Transylvania

2012    “Sand Tsunami”        for World Day to Combat Desertification

              General Sponsor:      Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC

                                                                           The Coping with Desertification Project

2012    “Flood with no Water”  project for World Water Day

               General Sponsor:                     Mongolian Water space, WW Foundation


2011     “Desertification in the Art ”         for World Day to Combat Desertification

               General Sponsor:                Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC

                                                                          The Coping with Desertification Project

2011    “Water Jewel” project

                General Sponsor:              Prince Claus Fund

                                                           International Forum for Inter Media Art

each separately organized successfully