Kathmandu: The Rubin Museum of Art has announced the addition of Hong Kong–based international lawyer and anthropologist Michael Moser and leading Nepali artist Tsherin Sherpa to the Board of Trustees. Tsherin Sherpa is currently representing Nepal in the inaugural pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, and the first mid-career retrospective of his work opened at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts earlier this year.
Sherpa has served as a Rubin Museum Advisory Council member since 2020. Michael Moser has served on the board of several NGOs engaged in the cultural preservation and documentation of religious artifacts and art on the Tibetan Plateau. Both Moser and Sherpa join an expanding Board of Trustees who support the Rubin Museum’s mission, programs, financial planning, and growing focus on global initiatives and collaborative projects in the Himalayan region.
The Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea, New York City, explores and celebrates the diversity and uniqueness of Himalayan art, ideas, and cultures across history and into the present. With its globally renowned collection, largely centered around art from the Tibetan Plateau, the Rubin fosters understanding and appreciation of this region by relating its art and ideas to our shared human experience today.
Inspired by the philosophical traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism and aligned with ongoing research into learning, behavior, and the brain, the Rubin offers innovative exhibitions and programs that examine provocative ideas across the arts and explore the mind. Through this work, the Museum serves as a space for reflection and personal transformation, opening windows to inner worlds so visitors can better navigate outer ones.
