Tenzin Phuntsog
Born New Delhi, India 1982
Lives and works between San Francisco, CA and New York, NY
Education
MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY 2006
BA Design Media Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2003
Awards
Emerging Director Award, Documentary, Asian CineVision, New York, NY 2019
Flaherty Fellow, The Flaherty, New York, NY 2019
Agnes Martin Fellow, Columbia University, New York, NY 2006
Solo Exhibitions
“Pure Land,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2022
Selected Group Exhibitions
“Forms of Awakening,” Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2023
“The State of the World: The Museum of the South Atlantic,” Galerias Municipais, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022/23
“Utterances,” NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY 2021
“Scrapbook (or, Why Can’t We Live Together,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2019
“ICM 002,” La Sala. Brooklyn, NY 2013
“Southern Panoramas.” VideoBrasil Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil 2011
“Talk About Nothing,” The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY 2010
“La Chinoise,” Hong Kong Film Archives, Hong Kong HK 2007
Galeria Vermelho, “Comunismo da Forma” São Paulo BR 2007
“Video Art Festival,” LOOP, Barcelona SP 2006
“LA Freewaves,”Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Geffen, Los Angeles CA 2004
Selected Screenings & Performances
“Trembling Time: Ruins, Replacements,” European Media Art Festival (EMAF) No. 36, Osnabruck, Germany 2023
“An Atypical Orbit,” silent green, Forum Expanded at the 73rd Berlinale, Berlin, Germany 2023
Rotterdam Film Festival (IFFR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2023
“Rituals of Resistance,” Hunter College, New York, NY 2021
“Resistance of Tibetan Exiles” (virtual), Asia American Arts Alliance, New York, NY 2021
Camden International Film Festival, Rockport ME 2020
“Chronicles,” BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia PA 2020
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque NM 2020
“The Meditative Life 2020: Consciousness, Meaning, and Connection,” Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville NY 2020
“Rituals of Resistance,” Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY 2019
“My Skins,” (performance), Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2019
Tibet Film Festival, Dharamsala, IN 2019 Tibet Film Festival, Zurich CH 2019
Groundwork Labs at Visionmaker, Lincoln NE 2019
San Diego Asian American Film Festival, San Diego CA 2019
Asian American Film Festival, Asia Society, New York, NY 2019
Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York, NY 2018
The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY 2014
Festival Jean Rouch, Regards Compares, Paris 2013
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY 2011
“Harlem in Tibet: Spotlight on Emerging Filmmakers,” Maysles Documentary Center, New York, NY 2010
Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu HI 2006
Residencies
Media Arts Residency Scholarship, Edith-Russ-Haus für Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany, Upcoming 2023
Marble House, Dorset, VT 2022
NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY 2021
Flaherty Fellow, New York, NY 2021
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 2014
Artist Talks
“As Seen from an Atypical Orbit,” silent green, Berlin, Germany 2023
“Q&A,” International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2023
“Friday Night Film Series: BlackStar Film Festival Discussion,” Colgate University, New York, NY 2020
“New Voices,” California School of the Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles, CA 2021
Cornell Ethnographic Film Department, Ithaca, NY 2021
CalArts Visiting Artist Series, Los Angeles, CA 2020
Buddhist Film Festival, Eye Museum, Amsterdam NL 2019
“Art & Practice,” School of the Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY 2019
Eye Museum Symposium, Amsterdam NL 2018
National Gallery, Singapore SG 2018
Catalogs
“The Day the Sun Died,” by Kellen Quinn, Psyche, Aeon Publishing, 2021 “Flaherty Seminar Catalogue,” by World Records, The Flaherty, 2020 “The Power of Non-Conformity Catalogue,” Rubin Museum of Art, 2019 “Asian American Film Festival Catalogue,” Asian CineVision, 2019 “Margaret Mead Film Festival Catalogue,” American Museum of Natural History, 2018 “Activating the Archive” Eye Filmmuseum, 2018 National Gallery Singapore, Painting with Light Catalogue, 2017 Metrograph Cinemas, Catalogue 2016 Festival Jean Rouch, Regard Compares Catalogue 2013 Video Brasil, Southern Panoramas Biennale catalogue, 2011 “Talk about Nothing,” The Rubin Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue 2010 Buddhist Film Festival Europe, Catalogue 2010 “Comunismo Da Forma,” Video Brasil Catalogue, by Marcelo Rezende, Alameda Press, 2008