Shakuntala Kulkarni (b. 1950, Dharwad, Karnataka) graduated in painting and later post-graduated in murals from Sir J.J. School of Art in 1973. Kulkarni then studied murals and graphics at the M S University, Baroda and then in Santiniketan, under Somnath Hore in 1976. Some of her solo exhibitions include: Grandmothers Tales, a Video installation at Gallery Chemould, Mumbai (2004), Of Bodies, Armour and Cages, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai (2012-13). Few of her group exhibitions are: Five Women’s Video Show on the International Women’s Day, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai (2006), Life in the Time of Cholera, Apeejay Multimedia Gallery, New Delhi (2002). In 2002, she was awarded the Prince Claus Fund for Setting up Multi -Disciplinary project Reduced Spaces.

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Beyond procenium

by Shanta Gokhale

This show constitutes two breaks in Shakuntala Kulkarni's work. The first is a break away from water colours and the second a break away from the two-dimensional picture. While her mixed media works on paper explore spaces other than the domestic spaces of her earlier works, her acrylic on canvas works

Shakuntala Kulkarni

Beyond procenium

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