Mindfulness
In Colour

Passang Tobgay is a Bhutanese Thangka and contemporary visual artist from Radhi, Trashigang, Eastern Bhutan, currently based in Thimphu. Trained in traditional thangka painting at the National Institute of Zorig Chusum, he later taught at Choki Traditional Art School before pursuing Fine Art and Art History at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, graduating in 2015. His artistic practice bridges Bhutan's artistic traditions with contemporary visual expression, often reinterpreting traditional Buddhist imagery to explore culture, identity, spirituality and the evolving relationship between tradition and modernity.