Marie-Dolma Chophel

Veil Of Mist - acrylic and enamel on canvas, 48"x 36"
2017

Veil Of Mist - acrylic and enamel on canvas, 48“ x 36“
2017

On Fire VII - Oil on canvas, 24“ x 20“
2024

On Fire VI - oil on canvas, 24” x 18”
2024

WIP 🚧 detail

On Fire IV- Oil on canvas, 24’’ x 20’’
2023

🎊Happy New Year everyone!🎊

On Fire V - Oil on canvas, 24"x 20”
2023

On fire III - Oil and on canvas, 24”x 20”
2023

On Fire IV - oil on canvas, 24”x20”
2023

Blizzard - 2023 - Oil and enamel on wood panel, 24"x18"

Lava IV - Oil and spray paint on canvas, 38"x48", 2023

Ô I am so ready to be back in the studio after a sweet summer break 😌

Pic is a painting I have done earlier this year -->
Alta - Oil and spray paint on canvas, 48"x38", 2023

My painting "Inner Dialogue" is part of the show Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection, on view at the Williams College Museum of Art (MA) until July 17th 2023.

💫Join us for the Opening Celebration and a conversation between curator Ariana Maki, artist Palden Weinreb and myself on Friday Feb. 24th! 👉 link to the program in bio

"Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection presents works by contemporary artists of Himalayan heritage alongside traditional Tibetan Buddhist rolled paintings, or thangka, from the Jack Shear Collection, a juxtaposition that highlights the richness and diversity of Tibetan artistic expression and fosters greater understanding and appreciation of Himalayan histories and identities.
Created between the 18th and 20th centuries, the thangka feature elaborate depictions of Buddhist narratives, deities, and practices. Talented, highly trained artists produced engaging scenes detailing the lives of the Buddha, chronicled incarnation lineages, and transmitted teaching stories. Some works would be used by initiates to support advanced meditation techniques while others depict deities who aid Buddhist practitioners with everyday concerns, granting blessings of wealth, long life, protection, or healing.
The traditional thangka are displayed in conversation with contemporary works by featured artists based around the world, including Marie-Dolma Chophel, Dedron, Nyema Droma, Gonkar Gyatso, Tenzin Norbu Lama, Kesang Lamdark, Tashi Norbu, Karma Phuntsok, Pema Rinzin, Rabkar Wangchuk, and Palden Weinreb. While some draw inspiration from Tibetan cultural markers, including repurposing or reimagining Buddhist imagery, others source inspiration completely outside those frames. Exploring themes of identity, consumerism, place, and cultural expectations, the artists employ a diverse range of media, from ground mineral pigments to acrylic paint, digital photography, mixed media works, and resin cast sculptures."

I am excited to participate in this amazing show opening next week, Friday 24th, at the Williams College Museum of Art!
Link to the event and program in bio

Posted • Now open!
Our newest exhibition, "Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection," opens today, featuring traditional Tibetan Buddhist rolled paintings, or thangka, in conversation with contemporary works by featured artists based around the world generously loaned by the artists themselves, The Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, and Faith Stone.

An opening celebration and program will be held next Friday, Feb. 24; check out the link in our bio for details.

We're open Tuesday through Sunday from 10-5. Admission is always free!

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Exhibition view with my new video "Resilience" shown at BAMPFA within the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World, curated by Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo.
The show is open and up until June 11th!

Images credit: Impart Photography, Courtesy of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

"Resilience" invites the viewer to reflect on our capacity to overcome obstacles - whether said obstacles come from inner conflicts and/or are impacted by our environment - by facing our fears and the negative narratives that sometimes hold us back. Through honest introspection and by forging inner determination, we may arise beyond the cycles of suffering which are inherent to life, break through impasses and transform obstacles, which then can impact both our life and our environment positively.

👋 I am excited to share with you all that my new video "Resilience" will be shown at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Archive (BAMPFA) within the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World, December 14, 2022 - June 11, 2023!

The show - curated by Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo - explores how artists and practitioners across two millennia have understood and utilized one of the core tenets of Buddhism—dependent arising, which posits that cycles of existence (saṃsāra) arise from past actions and that everything in the world can impact everything else.

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Resilience. 2022 - Video and sound: Marie-Dolma Chophel, 5min20sec.

"A pendulum is partially trapped in ice and black ink, enough so it is unable to swing freely as it would normally do, like frozen in space and time. As the ice progressively melts and the ink is washed away, clarity comes and the pendulum regains its freedom of movement.

Resilience invites the viewer to reflect on our capacity to overcome obstacles - whether said obstacles come from inner conflicts and/or are impacted by our environment - by facing our fears and the negative narratives that sometimes hold us back. Through honest introspection and by forging inner determination, we may arise beyond the cycles of suffering which are inherent to life, break through impasses and transform obstacles, which then can impact both our life and our environment positively."