Recent Publications in Two Areas
Buddhist Art of Mongolia
Contemporary Art of Mongolia
Research | Publications
OTHER NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL BOOKS
20th century Western Art. in Mongolian. (Ulaanbaatar: Art and Design Publishing, 2002)
Union of Mongolian Artists-2000. in Mongolian. (Ulaanbaatar: Art and Design Publishing,2001).
Co-author, Modernity and Art. in Mongolian. (Ulaanbaatar: College of Fine Art, 2000)
Work in Progress
Text, Image, and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhist Rituals
Book Chapters
In Himalayan Art in 108 Objects (New York: Rubin Museum of Art and Scala Arts Publishers, 2023).
“The Mongolian Artist Zanabazar and the Mongol Devotion to the Future Buddha Maitreya.”
“Appliqué Artistic Tradition and the War God Begtse’s Significance in Mongolia.”
"Mongolian Map of Capital Yekhe Khüriye.”
“The “Capitalist Art” and the Invention of Tradition in Twentieth-Century Mongolia” in Simon Wickhamsmith and Phillip Marzluf eds., Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia: Nation, Identity, and Culture (Leiden: Routledge, March 2021), Ch. 8.
“Internal Regulations of Gandan Monastery” in Vesna Wallace ed., Sources of Mongolian Buddhism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), Ch. 21, pp. 436-450.
“Carving and Sculpture” in Haruhiko Fujita ed., Encyclopedia of Asian Design, vol. 2, “Mongolia” section (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019), 488-491.
“Painting, Printing, and Book Culture in Mongolia” in Haruhiko Fujita ed., Encyclopedia of Asian Design, vol. 2, “Mongolia” section (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019), 476-480.
“Political Ecology in Baatarzorig’s Art: Mongolia Is in Business” in Hermione Spriggs and Rebecca Empson eds., Five Heads (Tavan Tolgoi): Art, Anthropology and Mongol Futurism (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2018), pp. 105-119.
“Artists as Crafters in Contemporary Mongolia” in Elizabeth Garber, Lisa Hochtritt, and Manisha Sharma eds., Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change (New York: Routledge, 2018), 126-127.
“The Power and Authority of Maitreya in Mongolia” in Vesna Wallace ed., Buddhism in MongolianHistory, Culture, and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 137-159.
“Zanabazar (1635-1723): Vajrayāna Art and the State in Medieval Mongolia” in Vesna Wallace ed., Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 116-136.
“Struggle Through Socialism and Survival in Modernity" in Morris Rossabi ed., Mongol Art: A History (forthcoming: New York: Rowman and Littlefield).
Book Reviews:
Review of Agata Bareja-Starzyńska, The Biography of the First Khalkha Jetsundampa Zanabazar by Zaya Paṇḍita Luvsanprinlei: Studies, Annotated Translation, Transliteration and Facsimile. Warsaw: Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, 2015. In Mongolian Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University, vol. 38, 2018, pp. 112-116.
Review of Zara Fleming and Lkhagvademchig Shastri eds., Mongolian Buddhist Art: Masterpieces from the Museums of Mongolia. Volume I, Parts 1–2: Thangkas, Appliqués and Embroideries.In International Journal of Asian Studies. Cambridge University Press, January 2015, pp. 107-109.
Peer-reviewed Academic Journals:
“The Portrait of Chinggis Khaan: Revisiting the Ancestral Connections” in Ellen Huang, Nancy G. Lin, Michelle McCoy and Michelle Wang eds., Water Moon Reflections: Essays in Honor of Patricia Berger (Berkeley: Institute East Asian Studies), Fall 2021: 57-90.
“Introduction” in Uranchimeg Tsultemin ed., Buddhist Art of Mongolia: Cross-Cultural Connections, Discoveries and Interpretations. Special Issue. Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Special Issue. (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, 2019), pp. 1-6.
“Buddhist Archeology in Mongolia: Zanabazar and the G.luk Diaspora beyond Tibet” and “Introduction to Special Issue” in Uranchimeg Tsultemin ed., Buddhist Art of Mongolia: Cross-Cultural Connections, Discoveries and Interpretations, in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, No. 31, June 2019, pp. 7-32.
“In Search of the Khutugtu’s Monastery: The Site and Its Heritage.” Translation from Mongolian in Uranchimeg Tsultemin ed., Buddhist Art of Mongolia: Cross-Cultural Connections, Discoveries and Interpretations, in Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, No. 31, June 2019, pp. 244-256.
“Mugi’s Self-Portrait and Maternal Bodies in Post-Socialist Mongolia.” Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture. Oxford, UK: Routledge, Vol. 33, issue 1, January 2019, pp. 79-104.
“A Case of Allegoresis: A Buddhist Painter and His Patron in Mongolia” Artibus Asiae, Zürich: Museum Rietberg, Switzerland, Vol.78, Issue 1 (2018), pp. 61-94.
“Mongolian Art and the Dilemma of Himalayan Affiliation” Journal of South Asian Studies, Taylor & Francis: British Association of South Asian Studies, Vol. 34, no 2, December, 2018: 137-153.
“Buddhist Revelations in Davaakhuugin Soyolmaa’s Contemporary Mongolian Art.” Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, EJournal, December 2017 (online issue): pp. 199-211.3
“Cartographic Anxieties in Mongolia: The Bogda Khan’s Picture-Map.” Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, December 2016 (online issue), May 2017 (hard copy): pp. 66-87.
“Thangka in the Library of Congress: Art for Independence and International Politics in Inner Asia in the early 20th century” in David Bade ed., Mongolian Studies: A Festschrift for Wayne Richter (Special Issue). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, vol. 35/2013, pp. 63-95.
International Publications:
“Buddhist Artists and the Socialist State.” in Mongolian. Lawain Egshig, Buddhist College of Gandan Monastery, August, 2014: pp. 17-27.
“Zanabazar’s Art and the Mongol Statehood” in Mongolian. Acta Mongolica, Institute for Mongolian Studies, National University of Mongolia, 13 /385, 2013: pp. 53-67.
“Soyolmaa’s Art: Passion for Buddhist Tradition” in Japanese. Arena, vol. 14, 2012, Kyoto University, Japan, pp. 1-6.
“Mongol Zurag: Nyam-Osoryn Tsultem (1923-2001) and Traditional-style Painting in Mongolia” in Orientations, 48/2, March-April 2017, Hong Kong, pp. 135-142.
“Tradition and Transition: Mongolian Artists at the Venice Biennale” in Orientations, vol. 46/6, September 2015, Hong Kong, pp. 97-103.
“Female Exploration” in Art Her Pulau Pinang: Conservatory of Fine Arts, Malaysia, June 2014 (e-journal).
Exhibition Catalogs
"Stefan Petranek: the Artist’s Intervention in the Environmental Crisis" in Uranchimeg Tsultem ed., exhibition catalog of Stefan Petranek's solo show "Connecting Time and Space Across the Anthropocene: Mongolia and the Midwest" at the National Gallery of Mongolia.
“Tuguldur: Travel, Transformation and the Power of Communication” in Tuguldur: Separated Geography From a Poem, exhibition catalog at Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, 2021
“Bayart-Od's Rich Mongolia: New Appropriation of Tradition in Mongolia” in UNESCO Art Collection Selected Works. Paris: UNESCO, 2021.
“Tsherin Sherpa: Meditation on Art and Life as Metamorphosis” in Metamorphosis: Recent Painting and Sculpture by Tsherin Sherpa, exhibition catalog at Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, 2020
“Other Home” the catalog of the first Mongolia Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2015. (Ulaanbaatar: Mongolian Contemporary Art Association).
“Women Artists of Mongolia” in Raiji Kuroda ed., Women Artists of Asia (Fukuoka: Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan, 2012), pp. 208-215.
“Modernity and Tradition in Mongolian Contemporary Art” in Annu Wilenius ed., Bare House: Pori-Rotterdam-Ulaanbaatar (Pori Art Museum, Finland, 2011), pp. 142-156.
"Zanabazar’s Art: The Building of Buddhist State in late Medieval Mongolia" in Meditation. The Art of Zanabazar and His School (Warsaw: State Ethnographic Museum, Poland, 2010), pp. 17-59.
“Brief Introduction to Mongolian Modern Art” in Saara Hacklin ed., Perception and Utopia (Kerava Art Museum, Finland, 2008), pp. 28-40.
“Art of Mongolia” in Mongolian Art: Origins and Present (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum: The Sankei Shimbun, Japan, 2002), pp. 156-161.
“Mongolian Modern Art” in Epic of Nomads (Moran Museum of Art, Korea, 2002), pp. 73-76.