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).