Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation is a charitable organisation providing support to a range of stakeholders in the art community, including art practitioners, scholars, students and institutions. The Foundation works towards identifying, nurturing, sustaining and growing the art ecosystem in India in equitable ways. Through various support programs, directly facilitated by the Foundation and in collaboration with partner organisations, the Foundation's work directly benefit our stakeholders. The Foundation's work aims to build a community of practitioners who are able to experiment, research and expand their practice with adequate financial support and professional mentorship.
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Benode Behari Mukherjee
1904-1980Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904-1980) was a painter, muralist, scholar and teacher whose lifetime of work has been crucial to the ​development of Kala Bhavan, the art school at Santiniketan, that... -
Leela Mukherjee
1916 - 2002Born in 1916 in Hyderabad, Sindh, Leela (Mansukhani) Mukherjee completed her schooling from the Theosophical Girls School in Benares. After graduating with a degree in Science from Bombay University in... -
Mrinalini Mukherjee
1949-2015Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949-2015), the daughter of two eminently creative artists Benode Behari Mukherjee and Leela Mukherjee, was born in Bombay, India and grew up in the two garden-rich centres of...
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Archives
Records from the foundation's archiveThe Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation Archive comprises of artwork images, installation pictures, personal photographs, as well as correspondence, texts and instruction guides belonging to Benode Behari Mukherjee, Leela Mukherjee and Mrinalini Mukherkjee.
A large part of the archives of Mrinalini Mukherjee and Leela Mukherjee were digitised in collaboration Asia Art Archive in India, and the arcive of Benode Behari Mukjerjee is currently being digitized in collaboration with Visva-Bharati University.
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Online exhibition from the archive
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SUPPORT
Updates about our grants & fellowships-
Documentary Film Fellowships
Call for proposals | Deadline 20 Sep 2025Call for Proposals The Fellowships will support three projects to explore the theme The Other Side . We invite feminist enquiries, narratives, speculations and reflections on alternative, different, unconventional, unheard... -
Scroll x MMF Arts Writer Grant 2025
This year, the grant will be awarded to Kamayani Sharma. A writer, podcaster, and translator, Kamayani focuses on visual art, culture, and media. She runs ARTalaap, South Asia’s first independent... -
Leela Mukherjee Artist-Educator Grant 2025
Call for Proposals | Deadline 10 July 2025Leela Mukherjee Artist Educator Grant, art education, artist grant, support program -
Mrinalini Mukherjee Creative Arts Grant 2024-25
On the jury this year were Belinder Dhanoa, Manisha Parekh and Jeebesh Bagchi, who were looking for projects that were “free from derivation, (had) a sense of inventive-ness and original...
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