Parnika Mittal
Parnika Mittal (b. 1993, based in Delhi/London) creates vivid, emotionally charged paintings shaped by colour, memory and fractured composition. Her practice explores selfhood, displacement and movement through forms that dissolve into abstraction, where recognisable figures and spaces give way to shifting patterns, textures and traces of feeling. Drawing on personal journals, lived transitions and the instability of home, her work holds memory, loss and identity in states of continual transformation.
About
Parnika Mittal’s paintings emerge from sketches, fragments and emotional notations made in the margins of her journals, often beginning in moments where language feels insufficient. Shaped by experiences of living across cities, countries and temporary homes, Parnika Mittal’s work reflects the residue of movement: fleeting intimacies, emotional dislocation, cultural crossings and the instability of shifting identity. Her faceless figures are not portraits in a literal sense, but vessels for uncertainty, longing, grief and the search for belonging.
For Parnika Mittal, home is not a fixed place but a fluid, emotional landscape. Through layered surfaces, fractured compositions and abstract forms, she explores the ways memory can both shape and unsettle the self. Parnika Mittal’s paintings hold what cannot always be clearly named — the colour of memory, the shape of goodbye, and the lingering texture of what remains after loss.
Education
University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, MA in Painting, 2017 - 2019 (London, UK)
National Institute of Fashion Technology, Dip. Graphic Designing, 2016 - 2017 (New Delhi, India)
College of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art in Painting, Drawing and Art History, 2012 - 2016 (New Delhi, India)
BD Somani International, Dip. Fashion Designing, 2011 - 2012 (Mumbai, India)
Select Group & Solo Exhibitions
Upcoming: The Mythologies of Colour, Meso Ventures, Soho House Mumbai, 2026 (Mumbai, India)
Artix Artfair, The Claridges Hotel, 2025 (New Delhi, India)
2020 Online Juried Show, Anton Art Centre, 2020 (Michigan, U.S.A)
Stages of Life, Harrow Arts Centre, 2019 (Middlesex, London UK)
Annette Messenger Show, The Crossing, Central Saint Martins, 2019 (London, UK)
Studio Space Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, 2018 (London, UK)
Free the voiceless, King's College Association, Somerset House, 2018 (London, UK)
Appetite, Apiary Studios, 2018 (London, UK)
Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, 2018 (London, UK)
Overprint Agitate Activate, Museum Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière, 2018 (Brussels,Belgium)
WARD, Medical School, University of Buckingham, 2017 (London, UK)
Artistagram, India Habitat Centre, 2016 (New Delhi, India)
Gender X,Y,Z, Gallery Art Laureate, Hilton, 2015 (New Delhi, India)
Mask Art Show, KGB Gallery, 2015 (Los Angeles, USA)
Out There Submission, Gallery 825 Los Angeles Art Association, 2015 (Los Angeles, USA)
Colours of India, 2014 (Jaipur, India)
Residencies & Awards
Nominated for promising state artist, 2017 (Uttar Pradesh, India)
High Houseworking, Antony Gormley, 2018 (Norfolk, England)
Teaching & Academic Engagement
Shiv Nadar School, Art Educator, IBDP Head, 2021-2025 (Gurgaon, India)
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