Sukhee Tsagaan (Mongolia) : Essay by Batzorig Mart, art historian, curator, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Sapar Contemporary is thrilled to present the first retrospective exhibition of Sukhee Tsagaan (Mongolia, 1953) in the United States. We are fortunate to be able to show a diverse selection of works on paper and canvas that span four decades and provide a rare and invaluable record of creative survival by an artist who lived through a cataclysmic change in Mongolia at the end of the 20th century. The works tell a story of Mongolia's nomadic and Buddhist past, the 20th-century rise and fall of Soviet colonialism, and the 21st-century chaotic expansion and growth, co-existence of nomadic and urban life, and the tapestry of Eastern and Western influences.