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Tsering Motup Siddho, born in 1992 is a multidisciplinary artist lives and practices from Leh Ladakh. Motup was born and raised in Ladakh and Mysore and has a post-graduation from Shiv Nadar University, Delhi.
Motup’s practice encompasses many different forms of expression, from performative video installation, photography, drawing, paintings and many more to present himself and thereby talk about identity and other fundamental issues and queries regarding the socio cultural constitution of selfhood vis-à-vis questions of identity, which spring from his own unique identity of the racial “Other” in relation to main stream Indian identities.
He often brings the ideas of stereotype, memory, home, migration, nationalism, patriotism, the border, and their transformations/intersections. How these ideas play out through material culture or language or performance, social and cultural practises and how they shape individual(s) in Ladakh.
He has taken part in several group shows in India and Abroad such as ‘Inside the Outsider’ Zone Art, Taiwan, ‘Busan International Video Art Festival’ Korea, ‘FLAME Artist Residency’ Pune, ‘Artist Unite/CHITRAKHANA’ New Delhi, ‘MFA Final Display’ KNMA, Noida, ‘Inner Path Festival’ Alliance Francaise, Delhi, ‘Minute Per Image’ TIFA Working Studios, Pune, Kochi
Muziris Biennale (Student Biennale). He is also a recipient of the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundationat 1Shanthi Road Art residency, Darashikoh. He has also worked with at ACHI Association as Coordinator and currently works as Arts Officer at the Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation, Leh.