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
- 2026 — FAACII Artist Residency India, in collaboration with Abode Bombay & Abode Jaipur
- 2018 — High Houseworking residency with Antony Gormley, Norfolk, England
- 2017 — Nominated for Promising State Artist, Uttar Pradesh, India
Teaching & Academic Engagement
- 2021–2025 — Art Educator, IBDP Head, Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon, India
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Selected Works
Torn passage
Parnika Mittal, 2025
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Bloom
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Trace
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Abu Dhabi
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Mykonos
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Familiar Strangers
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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A Quiet Glow
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Whispers of the Wild
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Botanical Dreams
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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A shared Earth
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Weaving Horizons
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Blooming between worlds
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A Night in Between
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Passing Through
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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What Remains
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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The distance between
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Unsettled Skies
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Soft departure
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Drifting Towards Light
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Epernay
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New Delhi
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Brac
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Ranthambore
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London I
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Hoi An
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Krakow
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Bali
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London II
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Hong Kong
Parnika Mittal, 2026
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Cappadocia
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Paris
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Exhibition History
Other
- 2026Carried Ground, MeSo Ventures, Abode Bombay, Mumbai, India
- 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
Press & Publications
- Mumbai culture: Laufey fans, mind-reading show and artists make city headlines, Mid-Day — 2026
- Artists-in-Residence Programme at Abode Bombay & Abode Jaipur, Hospemag — 2026
- Immerse in this exhibition in Mumbai to explore the diversity of surrealism, Mid-Day — 2026
- “Artix 4.0 Returns to New Delhi: A Celebration of Art, Culture and Creativity”, Caleidoscope — 2025
- Noor Anand Chawla, “Artix 4.0 shines a light on India’s artistic talent in a unique setting”, The Sunday Guardian — 2025
- “Artix 4.0: India’s First Hotel Art Fair Showcases Young and Emerging Artists”, Business News This Week — 2025
- “India’s Only Hotel Art Fair Is Back: Artix 4.0 To Reimagine Exhibition Spaces This August In Delhi”, Curly Tales — 2025