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-
Call for Proposals | Mrinalini Mukherjee Creative Arts Grant 2024-25
2 December 2024 - 31 January 2025The Mrinalini Mukherjee Creative Arts Grant is an annual visual arts grant aimed at supporting the work of an Indian artist/collective who has shown consistent engagement with shifting contexts within... -
MMF-PARI Fellowship 2024 -2025
Applications Closed 21 October - 10 December 2024We 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 People’s Archive of... -
Leela Mukherjee Artist-Educator Grant 2024
Announcing granteeLeela Mukherjee Artist-Educator Grant for art educators in India -
Mrinalini Mukherjee Creative Arts Grant 2023-24
Announcing Recepient'kalchi kodi – a fish-curry and rice story' ''kalchi kodi' means yesterday’s fish curry in Konkani, this is a delicacy eaten in Goan homes as the spices in the...
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