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​I am a London-based visual artist born in Mongolia.
I studied Mongol Zurag* at Mongolian Fine Arts College (BA Fine Arts) and Nihonga* at Tokyo University of the Arts (MA Fine Arts).
* The term "Mongol Zurag" appears in response to Soviet-influenced arts to revive traditional art styles to explore national identity in the post-Cultural Revolution era.* The term "Nihonga" is coined in the late 19th Century to distinguish Japanese painting from Western techniques, preserving tradition while incorporating Western influences.
While living in Japan for several years, I was attracted to Zen art and interpreted it in my art with abstract silhouettes inspired by Urban landscapes and nature.
After Japan, I moved my base to London, UK. Events in my personal life increased my awareness of my native ideology, "Hooson chanar".
It explains social and environmental issues in interrelationships, dependent on each other to exist in harmony and quality of the impermanence of all things. It is one form of Sunyata but didn't materialise as Japanese Zen Arts.
Perhaps those core ideologies are often reflected in my art with my artistic vision of portraying the connection between humanity and nature in a metaphoric expression.


 

 

Oto (Tsogt Otgonbayar)

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