TUGULDUR YONDONJAMTS
1977 born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lives and works in Ulaanbaatar
tuguldur9@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2014 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA
2004 Graduated Fine Arts from the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany
1997 BA-Mongolian Painting (Thanka), The University of Arts & Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Wolf Loving Princess, VER gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2023 Itshehe around the Step Trench Excavation, Mongolian National Art Gallery, MGL
2021 Separated Geography from a Poem, the Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries
2018 Investigations into the Darkest Dark, Arts Catalyst, London
2017 Hibernating Tattoos Guarding the Sweat of the Sun, Richard Taittinger Gallery, NYC
2015 Between Two Giants, Grand Gallery, American Museum of Natural History, NYC
2014 Hunters to Skull Island, Pony Project Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 Drawings, Werkraum Godula Buchholz, Denklingen, Germany
2009 Drawings, Werkraum Godula Buchholz , Denklingen, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Mongolia Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2025 Ulaanbaatar Biennale, Natural History Museum of Mongolia
2024 Embodied Archive, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2Day in Mongolia, Zanabazar Museum, Mongolia
Heilung der Erde, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2023 Open World, Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Thailand
Art Week 2023, Ulaanbaatar, MGL
2021 Unknown Waters, Microclima project, Venice, Italy
Minds Rising Spirits Tuning, The 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2020 After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San-Francisco
RedHero/Ulaanbaatar, part of panel at the MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media, Doc Fortnight
2019 Mystical geographies and landscapes of deep time:
Mark Dion, Dana Sherwood, Tuguldur Yondonjamts, Pinksummer gallery, Genova, Italy
A Tale of Apparitions, Plan B gallery, Berlin, Germany
A Beast a God and a Line, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
2018 Tavan Tolgoi & Mongolian Futurism, Greengrassi gallery, London, UK
Media Festival Ulaanbaatar 2018, org. by Arts Council of Mongolia, Natural History Museum, Ulaanbaatar,
MGL Is/In-Land, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, TW
“Speaking Lights and Shadows” in Contemporary Art of Mongolia VI, 976 Art Space, Ulaanbaatar,
MGL A Beast, A God, and A Line, Para-Site, Hong Kong, CN
A Beast, A God, and A Line (Traveling show), Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, BGD
2017 Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, NYC
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Para-Site, Hong Kong, CN
2016 Topografie und Mythos, Galerie der Stiftung K52, Berlin, Germany
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila,
Philippines Open Sessions 7: Hibernating Plan, The Drawing Center, NYC
In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New, Sculpture Center, LIC, NY
Smart water project, Ice sculpture on Chinggis Square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2015 How the sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds, Cuchifritos Gallery, NYC
Joshua Triennial, Site-Responsive Art and Performance in the Hi Desert, Joshua Tree, CA
2014 DRAW-Mapping Madness, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
SOMEWHERES & NOWHERES, IPCNY (International Print Center New York), New York, NY
MUU, Museum of Street Art (Muzej ulične umjetnosti), Zagreb, Croatia
Port of Call, LASALLE College of the Arts/ The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS), Singapore
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
UNITED AGAINST SPECULATION, organized by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu, LeRoy Neiman
Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2013 Eccentric Exercise- International Contemporary Drawing, Les Gens Heureux, Copenhagen,
Denmark Amalgamated- Mongolian Contemporary Art, Gallery MC, New York, NY
And after a pause, it continued, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York,
NY Magical Thinking, Brooklyn, NY
Glow show, Storefront video screening, Catskill, NY
2012 2nd Land Art Biennial Mongolia 360°, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
RAPID/TRANSIT, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, UB, Mongolia
Magic stories, KunstvereinGRAZ e.V. Regensburg, Germany
2011 Walter Koschatzky Artistic Prize 2011/Exhibition of the nominated works, MuMok-Hofstallungen, Vienna
2010 Open Studio, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, USA
Im Haus, Haus der Kunst München/ Munich, Germany
4th edition of Arte Laguna Prize 2009, Tese di San Cristoforo Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2009
TUGULDUR YONDONJAMTS
1977 born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lives and works in Ulaanbaatar
tuguldur9@gmail.com
Biography
TUGULDUR YONDONJAMTS
1977 born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lives and works in Ulaanbaatar
tuguldur9@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2014 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA
2004 Graduated Fine Arts from the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany
1997 BA-Mongolian Painting (Thanka), The University of Arts & Culture, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Wolf Loving Princess, VER gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2023 Itshehe around the Step Trench Excavation, Mongolian National Art Gallery, MGL
2021 Separated Geography from a Poem, the Berkshire, Reese & Paul Galleries
2018 Investigations into the Darkest Dark, Arts Catalyst, London
2017 Hibernating Tattoos Guarding the Sweat of the Sun, Richard Taittinger Gallery, NYC
2015 Between Two Giants, Grand Gallery, American Museum of Natural History, NYC
2014 Hunters to Skull Island, Pony Project Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 Drawings, Werkraum Godula Buchholz, Denklingen, Germany
2009 Drawings, Werkraum Godula Buchholz , Denklingen, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Mongolia Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2025 Ulaanbaatar Biennale, Natural History Museum of Mongolia
2024 Embodied Archive, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2Day in Mongolia, Zanabazar Museum, Mongolia
Heilung der Erde, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2023 Open World, Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai 2023, Thailand
Art Week 2023, Ulaanbaatar, MGL
2021 Unknown Waters, Microclima project, Venice, Italy
Minds Rising Spirits Tuning, The 13th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2020 After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San-Francisco
RedHero/Ulaanbaatar, part of panel at the MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media, Doc Fortnight
2019 Mystical geographies and landscapes of deep time:
Mark Dion, Dana Sherwood, Tuguldur Yondonjamts, Pinksummer gallery, Genova, Italy
A Tale of Apparitions, Plan B gallery, Berlin, Germany
A Beast a God and a Line, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway
2018 Tavan Tolgoi & Mongolian Futurism, Greengrassi gallery, London, UK
Media Festival Ulaanbaatar 2018, org. by Arts Council of Mongolia, Natural History Museum, Ulaanbaatar,
MGL Is/In-Land, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, TW
“Speaking Lights and Shadows” in Contemporary Art of Mongolia VI, 976 Art Space, Ulaanbaatar,
MGL A Beast, A God, and A Line, Para-Site, Hong Kong, CN
A Beast, A God, and A Line (Traveling show), Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, BGD
2017 Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, NYC
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Para-Site, Hong Kong, CN
2016 Topografie und Mythos, Galerie der Stiftung K52, Berlin, Germany
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila,
Philippines Open Sessions 7: Hibernating Plan, The Drawing Center, NYC
In Practice: Fantasy Can Invent Nothing New, Sculpture Center, LIC, NY
Smart water project, Ice sculpture on Chinggis Square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2015 How the sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds, Cuchifritos Gallery, NYC
Joshua Triennial, Site-Responsive Art and Performance in the Hi Desert, Joshua Tree, CA
2014 DRAW-Mapping Madness, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
SOMEWHERES & NOWHERES, IPCNY (International Print Center New York), New York, NY
MUU, Museum of Street Art (Muzej ulične umjetnosti), Zagreb, Croatia
Port of Call, LASALLE College of the Arts/ The Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS), Singapore
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
UNITED AGAINST SPECULATION, organized by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu, LeRoy Neiman
Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2013 Eccentric Exercise- International Contemporary Drawing, Les Gens Heureux, Copenhagen,
Denmark Amalgamated- Mongolian Contemporary Art, Gallery MC, New York, NY
And after a pause, it continued, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York,
NY Magical Thinking, Brooklyn, NY
Glow show, Storefront video screening, Catskill, NY
2012 2nd Land Art Biennial Mongolia 360°, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
RAPID/TRANSIT, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, UB, Mongolia
Magic stories, KunstvereinGRAZ e.V. Regensburg, Germany
2011 Walter Koschatzky Artistic Prize 2011/Exhibition of the nominated works, MuMok-Hofstallungen, Vienna
2010 Open Studio, Omi International Art Center, Ghent, USA
Im Haus, Haus der Kunst München/ Munich, Germany
4th edition of Arte Laguna Prize 2009, Tese di San Cristoforo Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2009