Mrinalini Mukherjee
Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949 – 15 February 2015) was an Indian sculptor. Known for her distinctly contemporary style and use of dyed and woven hemp fibre, an unconventional material for sculpting, she had a career lasting over four decades from the 1970s to the 2000s. Mukherjee's body of work is a part of public collections at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Tate Modern, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. The artist's personal archive is digitised and freely accessible on Asia Art Archive's website.
Mrinalini Mukherjee | |
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Mukherjee with her fibre creations during the preparation for the Fine Arts Fair, 1969 | |
| Born | 1949 Bombay, India |
| Died | 15 February 2015 (aged 65) New Delhi, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Welham Girls' School Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara West Surrey College of Art and Design |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Parent(s) | Leela Mukherjee Benode Behari Mukherjee |
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