Growing up as a young refugee child in India, it was Tibetan traditional Thanka painting that gave Pema Rinzin a canvas to see the world in a different way. Spending years in Dharamshala as a Art student and teacher, he later moved to different countries in the world, to exhibit, to teach, to learn and to explore.

In New York, he was an Artist in resident in Rubin Museum for three years and had his arts exhibited in Solo shows number of times in other studios in the city. Realizing the lack of credit for the works of Tibetan artists as individual expressions in the west, he strives hard to raise his voice amongst the art academia. His body of work consists of Traditional as well as contemporary art.