Mrinalini Mukherjee Bombay (Mumbai), India, b.1949
Born in 1949
Education:
1978 British Council Scholarship for Sculpture, West Surrey Collage of Art and Design, UK
1970-72 Post Diploma in Mural Design under Prof. K G Subramanyan, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda
1965-70 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda
1952-65 Studied in Dehradun and spent summers in Santiniketan
Mrinalini Mukherjee’s parents were both artists and she spent part of her childhood at Santiniketan, the educational institute in rural West Bengal started by Rabindranath Tagore. In art school, she majored in mural painting, but a chance encounter with local craftsmen ignited her interest in using jute and hemp fibers to create what began as wall-hangings and developed, over the course of thirty years, into elaborate sculptures. Subsequently, she also worked in ceramics and bronze and career retrospectives have been mounted at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi (2015) and the Met Breuer in New York (2019).
Selected Artworks
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Phenomenal Nature- The Met Breuer, 2019
2015
Transfigurations - National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi
2013
Palm Scapes - Nature Morte, New Delhi
Bronze -Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
2010
Works By Mrinalini Mukherjee - Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2007
Sculpture In Bronze - Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2004
Bronzes And Fiber Works - Nature Morte, New Delhi
2001
Night Bloom - Nature Morte, New Delhi
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1997
In The Garden - Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1996
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
European Ceramics Work Center, Hertogenbosch
1995
British Council Gallery, New Delhi
1994
Mrinalini Mukherjee Sculpture - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Pavilion Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall, Wakefield
Royal Festival Hall Galleries, London
1986
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1985
Pantheon Of Images - Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1977
Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai.
1973
Triveni Gallery, New Delhi
1972
Shridharani Gallery, New Delhi
Group Exhibitions
2018
Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi
2015
India Art Fair, New Delhi
Unorthodox - The Jewish Museum, New York
2014
Burning Down The House – Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
2013
The Body In Indian Art - BOZAR, Brussels
2012
Crossings: Time Unfolded (Part II) - Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
2008
India Moderna - Institut Valencia D’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Mapping Memories: Painted Travelogues - Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006
The Art Mill at Berkeley Square Gallery, London
Akar Prakar, Kolkata
2001
Bollywood Lounge - Arrival Passengers Terminal, Amsterdam
1999
Edge Of The Century- Nature Morte, New Delhi
1998
Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
Contemporary Indian Art - Kunsthallen Goteborg, Milles Garden, Stockholm
1997
Rediscovering The Roots: Contemporary Indian Art - Muses de la Nacion, Lima, Peru
Major Trends In Indian Art - Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Indian Contemporary Art: Post Independence, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
1996
Shilpayan - National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Samkaleen Bharatiya Kala Ek Sanchayan - Festival of India, Russia
Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1995
The Other Self - National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1994
100 Years: From The NGMA Collection - National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
1991
Words And Images: Artists Against Communalism - National Gallery Art, New Delhi
1990
National Gallery Art, New Delhi
1989
Timeless Art - The Times of India Exhibition, Chhattrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai
Artist's Alert - Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1988
Indian Contemporary Art, Festival of India, Japan: Merugo Museum of Art, Tokyo
Takaoka Municipal Museum of Art; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts
1987
Contemporary Women Artists, Festival of India, USSR
The Sculpted Image - Bombay Arts Festival, Mumbai
1986
Origins, Originality And Beyond - Sydney Biennale, Sydney
Second Biennale of Havana, Havana
First Biennale of Contemporary Indian Art, Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1985
Some Aspects Of Indian Art Today - Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1982
Festival of India, Contemporary Indian Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
All India Print Exhibition, Government Museum, Chandigarh
1981
India: Myth And Reality - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Fifth Triennale of Contemporary Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1980
Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
Paris Biennale, Paris
Anthology of Paris Biennale, Nice; National Gallery of Modern Art, Lisbon
1979
Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Sculpture, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1978
Six Who Declined To Show In The Triennale - Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
1977
National Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1975
Annual Exhibition, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi