Gonkar Gyatso is a Tibetan-born British artist whose practice explores themes of identity, spirituality, and the intersection of tradition and contemporary culture. Blending influences from Tibetan Buddhism and global popular culture, his work reflects on the complexities of displacement, cultural hybridity, and the Tibetan diaspora.

Gyatso studied Chinese brush painting in Beijing, earning a BFA, and traditional Thangka painting in Dharamsala. He later moved to London on a scholarship to study at the Chelsea School of Art and Design, where he completed his MA in Fine Art. He is also the founder of the Sweet Tea House, a contemporary art gallery dedicated to Tibetan art, which operated in London from 2003 to 2010. He was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship in 2003 and served as an artist-in-residence at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

His work has been widely exhibited and collected internationally, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rubin Museum of Art (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, and the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane). He has also participated in major international exhibitions such as the 53rd Venice Biennale, the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, and the 17th Sydney Biennale. Gonkar Gyatso has also participated in an exhibition at Janela.