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Nandita Mukand is a Singapore-based artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, installation and painting. Through the juxtaposition of materials, form and process she investigates the complexities of belonging and interconnection in today’s globalised world. Holding Nature as the anchor, she explores the boundaries between the artificial and the natural, fashioning everyday urban materials like medical gauze and iron nails into organic forms reminiscent of the natural world. Drawing upon her interest in neuroplasticity and buddhist texts, her work often explores observations of growth and decay in the wilderness in conjunction with the workings of the urban mind. In other installations she works with natural materials like dead plants, dried flowers and seeds.
Nandita's work has been showcased at the National Gallery Singapore (2021-2023), Sovereign Asian Art Prize Exhibition 2021, Hong Kong, OpenART Biennale 2017, Sweden, Imaginarium: To the Ends of the Earth, Singapore Art Museum (2017). She has been awarded artist residencies by the Fundacio L’Olivar in Spain, the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Australia and the Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives, Australia, all of which have enabled her to deepen her research into the natural world. She is also a two-time TEDx Speaker. Nandita graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class) from Goldsmiths, College of London via LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. She received the LASALLE Award for Excellence for outstanding student of the year. Nandita is an alumna of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and has a degree in Electronics Engineering. In 2008 she left a successful corporate career to pursue full-time her passion for art making. |
Solo Exhibitions
2020, Vessels of Change, The Columns Gallery, Singapore 2019, Mind(less) Wilderness, Miaja/Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore 2017-18, Forest Weft, City Warp, One East Asia, Singapore 2015, The Material of Time, Flaneur Gallery, Singapore Selected Exhibitions 2024,Entwined 2, Apparao Galleries, Delhi, India 2024, Evolving Expressions, The Columns Gallery, Singapore 2024,Entwined, Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India 2022, Yours in Truth, Space 118 Mumbai, India 2021-23, Because It Makes Me Feel, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore 2021, Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Art Central, Hong Kong 2019, Rules of Engagement, The Substation, Singapore 2019, Rejects, The Substation, Singapore 2019, Ethno-city, a two person show at NPE Gallery, Singapore 2019, From Lost Roots to Urban Meadows, a two person show at The Private Museum, Singapore 2017, From the Ocean to the Silver City, Australian High Commission, Singapore 2017, OpenArt 2017, Orebro Biennale, Orebro, Sweden 2017, Imaginarium: To the Ends of the Earth, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 2017, Multi, One East Asia, Singapore 2016, Fundacio L'Olivar, Catalonia, Spain 2016, Untapped, Chan Hampe Gallery, Singapore 2016, Repurposing Nostalgia, Singapore 2015, Exploring BigCi, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW, Australia 2015, Art Discovered, Art Fellas, Singapore 2014, The Ground, Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives (BigCI), NSW, Australia 2012, Beyond Limits- Praxis Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Education 2011-2014, Goldsmiths, University of London by LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. BA (Hons) Fine Arts 1998-2000, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Post Graduate Diploma in Management 1994-98, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India. B.Tech (Electronics) Awards, Tedx and Residencies 2021, Finalist, Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2021, Tedx Speaker, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore 2019, NPE Artist Residency, Singapore 2017, Tedx Speaker, NIIT Warangal India 2016, National Arts Council, Capability Development Grant, Singapore 2016, Fundacio L'Olivar Residency, Catalonia, Spain 2015, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Residency, NSW, Australia 2014, Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives (BigCI) Residency, NSW, Australia 2014, LASALLE Award for Academic Excellence (BA), for most outstanding BA student in the Fine Arts Published Research The Time of Cities and the Time of Nature: Regarding art dealing with the disconnection between urban life and natural world Contemporary Art and the Perceived Self-Sufficiency of Urban Life The Transcendental Sublime in Contemporary Art The Evolution Of Contemporary Painting in the Face of Claims of "The Death of Painting Previous Professional Work Experience 2002-2008, Senior Manager, Procter and Gamble, Singapore 2000-2002, Research Executive, Reckitt Benckiser, India |