The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
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The Exhibit
The Missing Peace: Artists consider the Dalai Lama is a multi-media art exhibit which brings together 88 respected artists from over 30 different countries. Using the life and story of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. Dalai Lamas are the most influential figures in the Gelugpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, although the 14th has consolidated control over the other lineages in recent years...
as inspiration, the intention of this project is to shift the world's attention toward peace.
The exhibit is the result of collaboration between the Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation, and was curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg, Executive Director of the nonprofit art and activism group, Art Works for Change. It has been shown all over the world.
Past Venues
Brukenthal National MuseumBrukenthal National Museum
The Brukenthal National Museum is a museum, erected in the late of 15th century in Sibiu, Romania, housed in the palace of Samuel von Brukenthal — who was Habsburg governor of Transylvania and who established its first collections around 1790...
, Sibiu, Romania May 18—July 18, 2010
Miami, Florida, The Frost Art Museum
Frost Art Museum
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum or simply known as the Frost Art Museum is a Florida International University museum located on-campus in Modesto A. Maidique in Miami, Florida....
, Florida International University
Florida International University
Florida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...
, October 9, 2009 to January 10, 2010.
Madrid, Spain, Fundación Canal, January 30 to April 12, 2009.
Tokyo, Japan, October 17 to November 9, 2008.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is a multi-disiplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, national, and international artists and the Bay Area's diverse...
-San Francisco, California, December 1, 2007 to March 16, 2008.
Emory Visual Arts Gallery - Atlanta GA, September 29 to October 27, 2007.
Rubin Museum of Art
Rubin Museum of Art
__notoc__The Rubin Museum of Art is a museum dedicated to the collection, display, and preservation of the art of the Himalayas and surrounding regions, especially that of Tibet...
, New York, March–September 2007 and The School of Visual Arts, July–August 2007
Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, October, 2006-January 2007
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
The Fowler Museum at UCLA or more commonly, The Fowler is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present...
, Los Angeles, June–September, 2006.
Current/Upcoming Venues
Nobel MuseumNobel Museum
The Nobel Museum is a museum devoted to circulate information on the Nobel Prize, Nobel laureates from 1901 to present, and the life of the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel...
in Stockholm — October 9, 2010—January 2, 2011
- Note: New venues are currently being scheduled.
Participating Artists
- Marina AbramovicMarina AbramovicMarina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
- Seyed Alavi
- Jane Alexander
- El AnatsuiEl AnatsuiEl Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor active for much of his career in Nigeria.Anatsui was born in Anyako, and trained at the College of Art, University of Science and Technology, in Kumasi, in central Ghana...
- Laurie AndersonLaurie AndersonLaura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
- Ken Aptekar
- Richard AvedonRichard AvedonRichard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...
- Kirsten Bahrs Janssen
- Chase Bailey
- Tyseer Barakat
- Sanford Biggers
- Phil BorgesPhil BorgesPhil Borges is a social documentary photographer and filmmaker.For over twenty five years Phil Borges has documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his exhibits, books and multimedia projects, he strives to create a heightened understanding of issues faced by people in...
- Dove Bradshaw
- Guy Buffet
- Dario Campanile
- Andy Cao Anh Khoa
- Squeak CarnwathSqueak CarnwathSqueak Carnwath is a contemporary American painter. She received her MFA from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1977. She is a Professor of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1982, having previously taught at California College of Arts and Crafts and...
- Long-Bin Chen
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Costantino Ciervo
- Chuck CloseChuck CloseCharles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
- Bernard Cosey
- Santiago Cucullu
- Binh Danh
- Mel Day
- Lewis deSoto
- Filippo di Sambuy
- Peig Fairbrook and Adele Fox
- Era and Donald Farnsworth
- Spencer Finch
- Sylvie Fleury
- Louis Fox
- Adam Fuss
- Juan Galdeano
- Rupert Garcia
- Robin Garthwait and Dan Griffin
- Richard GereRichard GereRichard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...
- Losang Gyatso
- Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
- David and Hi-Jin Hodge
- Jim Hodges
- Jenny Holzer
- Tri Huu Luu
- Ichi Ikeda
- Yoko Inoue
- Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
- Jesal Kapadia
- Anish Kapoor
- Kimsooja
- Enrique Martinez Celaya
- Nefeli Massia
- Yumyo Miyasaka
- Gabriela Morawetz
- Kisho Mwkaiyama
- Tom Nakashima
- Yoshiro Negishi
- Dang Ngo
- Michele Oka Doner
- Robert and Shana Parke-Harrison
- Susan Plum
- Rosemary RawcliffeRosemary RawcliffeRosemary Rawcliffe is a British filmmaker best known for her documentary trilogy, Women of Tibet, which she wrote, produced, and directed.-Career:...
- Tenzing Rigdol
- Herb Ritts
- Michal Rovner
- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Sebastiao Salgado
- Salustiano
- Andra Samelson
- Arlene Shechet
- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
- Doug and Mike StarnDoug and Mike StarnDoug and Mike Starn are American artists and identical twin brothers who produce their works of art as a team.The Starn brothers grew up in New Jersey and attended School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, graduating in 1984. They continued to live in Boston until 1989, when they moved to New...
- Pat Steir
- Hoang Van Bui
- Adriana Varejão
- Bill ViolaBill ViolaBill Viola is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media...
- Inkie Whang
- William Wiley
- Katarina Wong
- Yuriko Yamaguchi