While the Foundation's primary aim is to preserve and promote the legacy of this unique family through exhibitions, archiving, research initiatives, publications and films, it will fulfill its charitable purposes by extending its resources to art practitioners, students, educators, and art institutions through its various grant-making and collaborative initiatives. In the long term the Foundation looks to encourage and augment a range of programmes, practices and processes to sustain and nurture Indian art in the country and on the international stage.
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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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Updates about our grants & fellowships-
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... -
MMF-PARI Fellowship 2024 -25
ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP We are losing worlds and voices within rural India of which future generations will know little or nothing. P. Sainath Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation (MMF) in collaboration with... -
EAA+ 2024
FICA and MMF are excited to announce the new cohort for the Emerging Artists Award (EAA+), bringing together a wide and rich variety of practices, enquiries and endeavours. Since 2022,...
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