Kabi Raj Lama is an artist and printmaker based in New York and Kathmandu. Lama’s expressions are shaped by his lived experiences of natural disasters and their enduring psychological, cultural, and spiritual impact on the self and society. In his youth, he directly confronted two such events: the 2011 tsunami in Japan and later the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. These encounters profoundly impacted the way his worldview and continues to inform his ambitions.

Lama was brought up in Nepal’s revered Buddhist colony of Boudha where his upbringing within the indigenous Tamang community meant early interaction with paper and print making. Later his affinity to these craft would draw him to contemporary printmaking. Lama primarily works with lithography, woodcut, and intaglio but is not reserved to prints. He continually experiments with new tools, materials, and methods – including multidisciplinary collaborations with engineers and scientist.

Kabi Raj Lama earned his MFA from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University where he currently teaches printmaking. He is one of the awardees of Harvard University’s South Asia Institute’s artist exchange programme.