The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Artwork, which closed its brick and mortar New York area in 2024 and now operates as a “world museum,” has named the recipient of its annual artwork prize, in addition to the grantees for its analysis and artwork initiatives.
The winner of the 2025 Rubin Museum Himalayan Artwork Prize is Khadhok – Tibetan Artists’ Collective. As a part of the annual prize, which was established in 2024, recipients obtain a $30,000 purse, making it the biggest of its type to help Himalayan artists. Winners are chosen on the idea of getting made “a mark in inventive and critically related dialogues between Himalayan artwork and modern life,” in accordance with a launch.
Established in 2023, Khadhok is an artist collective primarily based in Dharamshala, India, that provides devoted area to modern visible artists to work on their practices. Its founding members embody Lea Taake, Tashi Nyima, and Tenzin Melak. Picture by Tenzin Dorjee; they have been impressed to type the group by the late Tibetan artist Jigme Choedak.
“We have been deeply moved once we first heard in regards to the award,” Khadhok’s founding members mentioned in a press release. “As a younger collective, being acknowledged by an establishment with such a protracted historical past in Himalayan artwork makes us really feel actually seen and valued. This recognition strengthens our confidence and encourages us to continue to grow. Most significantly, it adjustments what is feasible for Khadhok, permitting us to construct a powerful basis that actually lasts and helps artists and our neighborhood for a few years to return.”
The Rubin’s 2025 Analysis and Artwork Tasks grantees have been additionally chosen with 15 initiatives receiving $200,000 whole. Additionally launched in 2024, the grant program helps artwork and analysis initiatives that promote the wealthy cultural legacy and dwelling traditions of the Himalayan areas. The 15 initiatives have been chosen from 132 whole purposes, with grants ranging in value from $3,000 to $25,000, relying on the size, impression, and wishes of every respective venture. The total record of grantees is listed beneath.
“Working with Himalayan artwork and dwelling artists has been a part of our method because the Rubin was based in 2004,” Jorrit Britschgi, govt director of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Artwork, mentioned in a press release. “As a museum with out partitions we hope to extend visibility and consciousness of Tibetan and Himalayan artwork globally.”
Collectively, the Rubin Artwork Prize and Rubin Grants will present $230,000 in direct help to artists and researchers working in connection to the Himalayan area.
The total record of Rubin Artwork Grantees is as follows:
Nawang Tsering & Jamyang Tenzin
Tibetan Faculty Artwork Curriculum: Instructing Sources & Supplies for Artwork Educators
$22,000
VAST Bhutan
The Lungta Artwork Pageant (LAF) 2026
$15,000
Tenzin Tsering (Tenzoni)
Threads of Camp Mountain
$15,000
Khyenle
Lima Bronze Snow Leopard Artwork Undertaking – Recycling with Cultural Heritage
$18,000
White Crane Movies (Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam)
The Earth Is My Witness
$12,000
Human Clay Productions CIC
Weaving the Threads of Bhutanese Heritage
$18,500
Lujan Rai Dongol
Wheel of Life – A Modern Reimagining of Samsara
$5,000
The total record of Rubin Analysis Grantees is as follows:
Studio Nyandak
Documenting and Safeguarding Zanskar’s Buddhist Heritage
$25,000
Treasure Caretaker Coaching
Preservation of Buddhist Artwork in Mongolia: Analysis and Coaching for Painters and Neighborhood Members in Cost of Conservation in Distant Areas
$20,000
Loden Basis
Documenting Thangkas and Non secular Artifacts of Sumtrhang Samdrup Chödzong
$19,500
Chiara Bellini (with Edoardo Ferrari and Sabrina Ciolfi)
Feeding the Hearth or Worshipping the Ashes? Divergent and Controversial Approaches to the Restoration of Himalayan Artworks
$12,500
Dawa Gyalpo, Tandin Paljor, and Shiriin Barakzai
Documenting Cham Dances in Kham
$6,250
Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia
Reuniting the Temple: Recovering and Returning Sikkimese Buddhist Data and Materials Tradition from Museums to Mountains
$5,250
Suyog Prajapati
Assembling Courtyard Cities: Structure and Monasticism within the Kathmandu Valley (ca. fifteenth–18th Century)
$3,000
Briana Brightly
Anatomy of the Buddha: Visualizing the Physique in Tibetan Drugs, 1687–1900
$3,000
