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Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu

UURIINTUYA DAGVASAMBUU
Born in 1979

 

Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu is one of most influential new generation of Mongolian artists, who adopted traditional Mongol Zurag, finding it as means of searching personal and national identity and addressing the contradictions of their lives at a time of unprecedented urbanization, financial precariousness and competing cultural influences. Drawing on traditional patterning and the experiences of Mongolian women, Uuriintuya’s paintings combine poetic and everyday imagery, creating subtle contrasts between the manufactured and the natural or organic, and between intense detail and flat planes of color. Her paintings frequently include recognizable motifs from traditional Buddhist painting and East and Central Asian aesthetics, as well as psychologically charged imagery of contemporary life. One recurrent motif in Uuriintuya’s paintings is a writhing mass of naked human bodies thrust together – struggling, copulating or just trying to coexist – cast against empty, melancholic expanses of picture plane. (text source QAGOMA)

 

Education

2004     Master’s Degree, Mongolian State University of Education

2002     Bachelor Degree, School of Fine Arts, Mongolian University of Arts and Culture

Solo Exhibitions

2018     ХАДГАЛАГДАХ, Art Space 976+, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2006     I’m from there.., Museum of Mongol Costumes, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Group Exhibitions

2019     Assimilation Non-Assimilation, Art Space 976+, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2015     8th Asia Pacific Triennial, Queensland, Australia
2015     Contemporary Mongol Zurag, Art Space 976+, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2014     5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
2014     Contemporary Art of Mongolia II, Art Space 976+, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2013     Lost Children of Heaven, Art Space 976+, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2013     Delights of the World, Art Space 976+, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2013     Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
2012     Erinerung Sprich, Plan D Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
2012     Mongol Zurag 10 Years, Art Gallery of UMA, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2012     Arsenal 2012, Kiev Biennial, Ukraine
2012     Women in Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2012     Shanghai 9th Biennial, Shanghai, China
2011     Between Heaven and Earth, Contemporary Art from the Centre of Asia Calvert 22, London, UK
2011     Modern Mongolia, Han Art Gallery, Hong Kong

2010     Smoke in the Brain, Red Ger Gallery, Arts Council of Mongolia

2009     We, Art Gallery of UMA, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2009     Chinese International Gallery Exposition, Beijing, China

2009     Mongolian Contemporary Artists, Xanadu Art Gallery, Mongolia

2008     Beijing Biennale, China

2006     Ancient and Today, Art Gallery of UMA, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

2006     Art Expo, Las Vegas, USA

Annual Exhibitions

2013, 2015: Best Artwork of a Year, National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar

2006, 2007, 2012: Spring, Gallery of Union of Mongolian Artists, Ulaanbaatar

2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2018: Best Works, Gallery of Union of Mongolian Artists, Ulaanbaatar

2000, 2002, 2004: Horse Rider Mongolian, National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Awards

2018     Gran Prix, Best Art of the Year, Gallery of Union of Mongolian Artists, Ulaanbaatar

2013     Gran Prix, Best Art of the Year, National Modern Art Gallery, Mongolia

2012     Gran Prix, Best Art, Association of Mongol Zurag, Mongolia

Grants

2017     Goethe Institute for Documenta 14 tour

2013    Lost Children of Heaven, Mongolian Contemporary Art Support Association and U.S. State Department

2012     Grant from Kunsthalle Dusseldorf for international travel and exhibition

Press

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WE 2018
acrylic on canvas
150×60 cm
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Spring 2019
photographic print, acrylic on canvas
70×90 cm
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Assimilation 2 2019 (Uuriintuya. D, Batzorig. M)
acrylic on canvas
150×170 cm, 40×170 cm (2 pieces)
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Balance 2018
acrylic on canvas
100×100 cm
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Textile 2018
acrylic on canvas
50×150 cm
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Selfie 2018
acrylic on canvas
100×70 cm
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Untitled 2013
acryl on canvas
130×130 cm
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Refugees 2019
photographic print, acrylic on canvas
80×150 cm
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Winter 2019
photographic print, acrylic on canvas
48×48 cm, 50×60 cm, 48×48 cm (3 pieces)
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Order
acrylic on canvas
100×100 cm
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Unity 2018
acrylic on canvas
200×100 cm
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Selfie 2018
acrylic on canvas
150×150 cm
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Assimilation 2019 (Uuriintuya. D, Batzorig. M)
acrylic on canvas
190×250 cm
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Summer 2019
photographic print, acrylic on canvas
70×90 cm
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Queen 2018
acrylic on canvas
100×130 cm
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The Moon 2014
acrylic on canvas
90×70
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On the Road 2014
acrylic on canvas
70×149 cm

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