Amarasaikhan Namsrai

 Amarasaikhan Namsrai is a young Mongolian artist with a great passion for his home and country.  His educational experience includes attendance of the Setgemj Design Fine Art School, as well as, the Mongolian University of Art and Culture of Ulaanbaatar city, Mongolia, where he received a bachelor’s degree.  Amarsaikhan is a member of the Union of Mongolian Arts (UMA), the largest organization created to promote Mongolian arts and art crafts.  Amarasaikhan has been participating in local and international exhibitions since 2002, including those sponsored by UMA, the Zanabazar fine art museum, and Hanadu Art Gallery in Mongolia.  In addition, he has displayed his work internationally in Vigo, Spain.  Amarasaikhan has also offered solo exhibitions with great success.  Maintaining close ties with Mongolian arts and culture, he has presented his art work in the “Great Mongolia” exposition, which was dedicated to the 800^th anniversary of the state of Mongolia.  Much of Amarasaikhan’s paintings depict elements of Mongolia’s history, culture and values.  For example, pieces like “Two Shamans,” bring to light Mongolia’s close relationship with Shamanism, an ancient philosophy of nature that was once at the peak of intellectual thinking.  Also, his striking painting “Ghenghis Khan and his Ghost Warriors” honors Ghengis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire, the second largest empire in history.  As his paintings prove, Amarasaikhan is a man whose respect and honor for his culture plays a vital role in who he is.