Kathmandu, Sept. 10 -- Printmaking artist Subas Tamang's exhibition 'History, Memory, Identity', is a tribute to the struggle and resistance against oppression of Nepal's Tamang community.

Tamang was recently awarded the Himalayan Light Art Scholarship, a grant created by Chinese artist Zhao Jianqui to encourage and promote young Nepali artists and their work. He was one of 141 contemporary Nepali artists whose work was featured in Italian businessman Luciano Benetton's 2017Imago Mundicollection as well as the bookNepal: Legends.

Tamang was born in Morang and in school he recalls that there was a complete absence of any subject regarding the Tamang community in the curriculum, and this prevented him from learning more about his people....