Lama Tony Karam & Pablo Vargas Lugo

As part of the OMEGA exhibition, Labor presents the talk From ॐ to Ω with Lama Tony Karam and artist Pablo Vargas Lugo.

Limited capacity. Please reserve at info@labor.org.mx.

Pablo Vargas Lugo was born in Mexico City in 1968 and studied Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Since 1991, his work has been exhibited in more than a hundred solo and group shows. His work has distilled a repertoire of resources that resonate with images and references in foreign registers, awakening humor, curiosity, or astonishment at the encounters that these displacements provoke. In his work, a series of constant interests such as space technology, writing, the measurement of time, and the mimetic or deterrent patterns of some insects are communicated through unusual technical, visual, and conceptual alignments.

Notable exhibitions include Exceso Solar at the Museum of Art and History in Guanajuato (2023), Acts of God at the Mexican Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Atlas at the Museo Universitario del Chopo (2018), micromegas at the Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art and the Amparo Museum in Puebla (2014), Intemperie at the Museo Experimental el Eco in Mexico City (2012), Eclipses for Austin at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas (2009), and Contemporary Projects (with Gajin Fujita) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2005).

His work can be found in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, the Museum of Art in Lima, the Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, and the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, among others.

Lama Tony Karam is president and founder of Casa Tibet Mexico, one of the oldest and most influential pro-Tibet educational and cultural institutions in Latin America. He received a bachelor's degree in Western Philosophy from La Salle University in Mexico City and a bachelor's degree in Buddhist Studies from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, with a specialization in Buddhist and Western Psychology. He has completed postgraduate studies in Buddhist Psychology and Philosophy at several universities in the United States, Asia, and Europe, including Harvard, Oxford, and Heidelberg Universities.

He is a member of the 21st Century Trust in England; a member of the Steering Committee and founder of the International Network of Tibet Support Groups; and a member of the Board of the International Campaign for Tibet. As a scholar, Lama Tony Karam has specialized in the study of Tibetan Buddhist tradition and civilization. He has been a translator for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet as well as some of the most important scholars and teachers of the tradition. In recent years, he has worked to build bridges between the cultural and psychological heritage of ancient Buddhist civilization and that of modern Western culture and science.

–Labor