Mrinalini Mukherjee

Mrinalini Mukherjee
Mukherjee with her fibre creations during the preparation for the Fine Arts Fair, 1969
Born1949 (1949)
Bombay, India
Died(2015-02-15)15 February 2015 (aged 65)
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materWelham Girls' School
Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara
West Surrey College of Art and Design
Known forSculpture
Parent(s)Leela Mukherjee
Benode Behari 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;[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;[2] and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. The artist's personal archive is digitised and freely accessible on Asia Art Archive's website.[3]

  1. ^ Tate. "Mrinalini Mukherjee 1949–2015". Tate. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Mrinalini Mukherjee | Aranyani". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  3. ^ Archive, Asia Art. "Mrinalini Mukherjee Archive". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.