Parnika Mittal
Delhi / London — Painting
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.
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.
Education
- 2017–2019 — MA in Painting, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London, UK
- 2016–2017 — Diploma in Graphic Designing, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India
- 2012–2016 — BA (Hons) Fine Art in Painting, Drawing and Art History, College of Art, New Delhi, India
- 2011–2012 — Diploma in Fashion Designing, BD Somani International, Mumbai, India
Awards & Residencies
- 2017 — Nominated for Promising State Artist, Uttar Pradesh, India
- 2018 — High Houseworking residency with Antony Gormley, Norfolk, England
Teaching & Academic Engagement
- 2021–2025 — Art Educator, IBDP Head, Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon, India
Selected Works
Exhibition History
Other
- 2026The Mythologies of Colour, MeSo Ventures, Soho House Mumbai, Mumbai, India
- 2025Artix Artfair, The Claridges Hotel, New Delhi, India
- 20202020 Online Juried Show, Anton Art Centre, Michigan, USA
- 2019Stages of Life, Harrow Arts Centre, Middlesex, London, UK
- 2019Annette Messenger Show, The Crossing, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
- 2018Studio Space Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London, UK
- 2018Free the voiceless, King's College Association, Somerset House, London, UK
- 2018Appetite, Apiary Studios, London, UK
- 2018Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK
- 2018Overprint Agitate Activate, Museum Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière, Brussels, Belgium
- 2017WARD, Medical School, University of Buckingham, London, UK
- 2016Artistagram, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
- 2015Gender X,Y,Z, Gallery Art Laureate, Hilton, New Delhi, India
- 2015Mask Art Show, KGB Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- 2015Out There Submission, Gallery 825 Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, USA
- 2014Colours of India, Jaipur, India