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Artist Statement
I am a Mongolian American multidisciplinary artist, curator, cultural producer, educator and journalist working across visual art, performance, installation, video, digital media and social practice. Born in Mongolia, raised in Hungary and brought to the United States in 1999. I work from the intersections of migration, cultural memory and ancestral cosmology.
My practice investigates consciousness as a creative force and perception as a means of transforming reality. Drawing from Buddhism, Mongolian shamanism, esoteric philosophy, mythology and quantum science—I seek to bring ancestral knowledge into dialogue with contemporary life and emerging technologies. Through immersive installations, performance, moving image and digital worlds, I explore the relationship between inner experience and the structures that shape our collective reality.
I am interested in how systems of belief shape our sense of identity, worth and possibility. Colonialism, capitalism and inherited narratives of scarcity condition how we see ourselves and one another. My work challenges these limitations through art as a practice of healing, self determination and expanded consciousness.
At its core, my work confronts the forces that condition how we perceive ourselves and the world. I explore the indivisibility of the seen and unseen, the individual and collective, ancestral wisdom and imagined futures. Through alchemy, I seek to dismantle the illusion of separation, reclaim our inherent sovereignty and awaken our capacity to shape reality beyond the limits of inherited belief.