Remembering Lain Singh Bangdel

The artist’s first solo posthumous exhibition in Yeh Art Gallery, New York is all set to put the spotlight on Nepal’s international art history and how modern art made it to the country.

In 1962, when Lain Singh Bangdel put up his first solo exhibition at Tri-Chandra Campus, Kathmandu, it was a surprising and uncommon affair. When modern art was still unheard of in the Nepali art pedagogy, Bangdel’s modern artwork collection, inclusive of abstract depictions, was baffling, obscure, and incomparable, all at once.