Zayasaikhan Zaya Sambuu (1975, Mongolia): Works. Part I Zayasaikhan Sambuu, who later became known as Zaya, was born in a small & isolated town with only about one hundred households in Gobi, Western Mongolia. Its during his teenage years that the oppression & censorship of communism started to fade away, which enabled the reemergence of forgotten nomadic culture & heritage as well as the freedom of religion. Growing nationalism & religious freedom allowed many people to practice Buddhism & as a teenager who was skilled in drawing & was greatly encouraged by the elders to depict portraits of Buddhist Gods in order to recover their religious customs and values. That had been forbidden by the communist regime for more than a decade. For this reason, Zaya was first introduced to art through Buddhism. Indeed, Buddhism had especially influenced him & at the age of 15 he decided to become a monk. However, after studying Tibetan religious texts for two years, he realized that he had a greater interest in art itself rather than religion. In addition, the lifestyle of the monks & the strict rules of religion clashed with his artistic personality & creative mentality. At the age of 17, Zaya enrolled in the Soyol Fine Art College in Ulaanbaatar to study the traditional Mongolian fine arts. After finishing at the college, he continued his academic career & went on to study at the Institute of Fine Art at the Mongolian University of Culture & Art, which he graduated in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree. He had been a very active artist even when he was a student. From 1999 to 2002, he successfully presented various solo exhibitions in the Art Union of Mongolia. The 2001 exhibition in German Embassy in Mongolia was highly rated by both the Mongolian artists & art critics. In 2003, Zaya was named the best young artist of Mongolia in the Art Show of Young Artists. In the recent years, Zaya is working in the international community. He has conducted an art show in Brisbane, Australia in 2008, an exhibition in Niihama Ehime, Japan in 2009, and an exhibition in Camel K gallery, Matsuyama, Japan in 2009. Additionally, he has been a permanent artist at the Galerie Elektra in Sausalito, California ever since 2006.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 21:53:21 +0000
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