Kundan Mondal is an Indian contemporary artist whose practice engages painting as a site where history, memory, and materiality intersect. Trained in Kolkata and later at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M. S. University of Baroda, he completed his MA in Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, as a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship supported by the British Council. His education across these contexts shaped his sensitivity to both Indian and Western art histories, informing his understanding of how painted surfaces can hold multiple temporalities at once.
His work draws from Kalighat painting, fresco traditions, archaeology, and modernist vocabularies. Often beginning with found or archival imagery, Mondal transforms reference material through layering, fragmentation, and shifts in perspective. His paintings move between representation and abstraction, constructing surfaces that appear both built and eroded. Fragments stand complete yet suggest a larger whole, and compositions often extend beyond their frames, unsettling fixed viewpoints and linear readings of history.
Mondal has exhibited widely in India and internationally. His works have been presented at platforms such as the 5th edition of The Asia Triennial Manchester, Manchester, and at the Manchester Contemporary Art Fair. He has participated in exhibitions at Art Centrix Space, New Delhi; Rukshaan Art, Mumbai; Stainless Gallery, New Delhi; CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata; and Conflictorium Museum, Ahmedabad, among others. He has also shown at art fairs including India Art Fair, New Delhi, and Cambridge Art Fair, UK.
In 2018, he received the Wytham Hall Painting Prize, London. Earlier recognitions include the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship, a Junior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and the Rajya Charukala Parsad Award. His works are held in collections including the University of the Arts London and the Wytham Hall Collection, as well as in private collections in India and abroad.
Alongside his exhibition practice, Mondal has participated in residencies and conferences such as the Vishnu Manchu Art Foundation Residency, Tirupati; the Artistic Conception International Tea Culture Exchange Conference hosted by Tsinghua University, China; and the National Art Symposium at Surat School of Fine Arts.
Through his layered and fragmented visual language, Mondal positions painting as a quiet yet persistent resistance to singular narratives, allowing overlooked images and alternate histories to surface and breathe.