Kundan Mondal

Kundan Mondal

For the Love of Music, 2017
Watercolour, Gouache, Gold Ink, Casein, Pigment on Hand Dyed Nepalese paper affixed on Plywood
72 X 48 inches
Cosmic Flowers-II, 2019 Watercolour, Gouache, Gold Ink, 24 C Gold Leaf, Casein, Pigment Sanganeri Paper, Hand Dyed Nepalese paper on Paper affixed on Plywood
71 x 47 Inches
Hiraṇyagarbha-I, 2022 Watercolour, Gouache, Gesso, Gold Ink, 24C Gold Leaf, Casein, Gold dust and Natural Pigment on Hand Dyed Nepalese paper affixed on Canvas
72 x 48 Inches

Kundan Mondal  (b. 1980, Burdwan, West Bengal, India) completed his MVA from Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, 2009 and later pursued MFA in Painting from the Wimbledon college of Arts, University of the Arts, London, with a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship, 2018. 

He has been awarded the Rajya Charukala Parishad Award, 2006, Junior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, 2012-13, the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship, 2017-18, and The Wytham Hall Painting Prize, 2018. 

Kundan Mondal’s work creates a multi-layered language to articulate and construct a genre of contemporary history paintings and anti-history paintings that refer to current political and historical events.

Kundan lives and works in Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

Shadows in the Pond, 2023
Watercolour, Gouache, Gesso, Gold Ink, 24 C Gold Leaf, Casein, Gold dust pigment, Natural Pigment on Hand Dyed Nepalese paper affixed on Plywood, 71 x 47 Inches