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.

ESSAYS

Caryatid - A View Point

by Chaitanya Sambrani

First published in 1996.

There is a myth about South Indian temples that Shakuntala Kulkarni likes to narrate. The temple priest argues that the vision of the image of Visnu is too powerful in its beauty to be beheld by mortal eyes all at once. That is why the sculptural relief of sesasayi

And When She Roared The Universe Quaked

by Shilpa Phadke

First published in catalogue by Chemould Art Gallery, 2007 and Westerly, 56:2, November, 2011.

“…and when she roared the universe quaked” complicates our understanding of violence - how do we relate to it when we find it at the centre of a performance, when martial art practices allow us access

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

Caryatid - A View Point

And When She Roared The Universe Quaked

Beyond procenium

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