Gade was born May 1971 in Lhasa, Tibet.

In 1991, he graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Tibet University in Lhasa, with a degree in Traditional Chinese Realistic Painting. In 1992, he was admitted to the Master of Arts programme at the Central Academy of Arts as a student assistant.

Gade is a founding member of the Gedun Choephel Artists’ Guild. Now a lecturer in the School of Fine Arts, Tibet University, Gade is also a contracted artist for Rossi & Rossi Gallery in London, Plum Blossoms Gallery in Hong Kong and the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing.

Shows

2008  Rossi&Rossi. London

2008  Participated in 55 days in Valencia. Chinese Art Meeting, Museum of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain  

2007  Participated in Reincarnation, Doris McCarthy Gallery UTSC, Toronto Canada.  

2007  Participated in Lhasa-New Art from Tibet in Red Gate Gallery, 798 District, Beijing.  

2007  Participated in “Inside out” group exhibition in Gedun Choephel Gallery in Lhasa, Tibet.

2007  Participated in New York Asian Arts Festival "Transformation - Tibet Contemporary Art Exhibition”, sponsored by London’s Rossi & Rossi Gallery  

2006  Participated in Waves on the Turquoise Lake: Contemporary Expressions of Tibetan Art, American University of Colorado Museum, Colorado, U.S.A.  

2006  Participated in Lhasa Train, Peaceful Wind Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.  

2005  Participated in From classic to contemporary: Visions from Tibet, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, London, U.K.  

2004  Held Solo exhibition at the Sweet Tea House Art gallery, London, U.K.  

2004  Artist-in-residence at the Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Art Centre in North Uist, Scotland