Born 1966, Tibet
Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
1979-1981 Degree in Tibetan Traditional Thankga Painting and Fine Art from Tibetan Children’s Village Painting School. Titled “The Best Tibetan Thangka Painter.” (1979, 1981
"Compassion Transformed" at Joshua Liner Gallery
Tibetan Fine Art exhibition in Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany.
Photo and Color Exhibition in Tibetan Art and Color Studio, Wurzburg, Germany.
Tibetan Fine Art Exhibition in Hobbit Theatre, Wurzburg, Germany.
First Tibetan Fine Art Exhibition in Alexander-Schroder-Haus, Wurzburg, Germany.
"PULSE Contemporary Art Fair" with Joshua Liner Gallery, Miami, FL (Dec.)
"Tibetan Contemporary Art: Tantric Vision in Modern Self-Expression" co-curated by Pema Rinzin, Tibet House, New York, NY (Sep. - Nov.)
“Summer Group Exhibition” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Aug.)
“Tibet. Art. Now” at Palazzo Nerucci, Castel del Piano, Italy (Jul. – Aug.)
"Summer Group Exhibition" at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Aug.)
"Tradition Transformed" at Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY(Jun. - Oct.)
"The Barnstormers" at Joshua Linear Gallery, New York, NY (Mar.)
"Big! Himalayan Art" at The Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX (May - Feb.)
"Big! Himalayan Art" at Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (Jun.)
"Pema Rinzin Exhibition" at Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Sixteen Giant Paintings at Shoko Culture Research Institution, Nagano, Japan. (1995-2004)
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
The Collegiate School, New York, NY
Tibet House, New York, NY
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
The Nightingale-Bamford School, New York, NY
The New School University, New York, NY
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Dalton School, New York, NY
Massachussetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
SVA, New York, NY
The Collegiate School, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Shoko-Ji Cultural Research Institute, Nagano, Japan
Tradition Transformed, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (Catalogue published by ArtAsiaPacific and Rubin Museum of Art)
Time Out New York, NY (May)
The Flag Project, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY (Publication features a contemporary painting by Pema Rinzin titled ‘Precious Hand’)
Time Out New York, NY
Die Weltdestibetischen Buhddhismus, Rare photos/citations (p.620-626) - Publication of Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany.
Gethope, Dr. Youko Miyasaka, Japan (Features two illustrations by Pema Rinzin)
Life and Legends of the Eighty Four Mahasiddhas, by Chogyan Trungpa (Illustrated by Pema Rinzin and Yumyo Miyasaka, Shinju Publishing, Tokyo, Japan)
A History of Tibetan Painting, by David Jackson (Illustration within chapter called “The Great Tibetan Painters and their Tradition” (p.102) - Publication of Verlag Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wein.
New York Channel One (NY1) • New York, NY
Bayern Television • Munich, Germany
LCV Cable TV News • Nagano, Japan
LCV Cable TV News • Nagano, Japan
NHK National TV • Tokyo, Japan
LCV Cable TV News • Nagano, Japan
“Peace and Energy: Pema Rinzin” - Time Out New York Magazine 05 (2010): 14.
He’s Hauling in the Visitors by Livening up Events - The New York Times • 3.12.2008
Dalai Lama Appears at the Rubin Museum, in Spirit and Acrylic - Chelsea Now • 3.16.2007
Overwhelming to Behold - The New York Sun • 8.23.2007 - Performance Painting
Resident Magazine • 2.19.2007
Mystics from the Mountains - The Financial Times • 8.29.2006
Brushes with the Divine - The Japan Times • 7.18.2001 Mein Post • [Wurzburg, Germany] Okaya City Newspaper • [Japan]
Mein Post • [Wurzburg, Germany] Market • [Wurzburg, Germany]
Suwoko City Newspaper • [Japan] Yumi Uri Shinbun • [Japan] City Newspaper • [Japan]
Okaya City Newspaper • [Japan] Okaya International Exchange Association N