Anjolie ela menon biography of martin

Indian artist

Anjolie Ela Menon (born 17 July ) is one of India's leading contemporary artists.

Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist.

Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist.

Born in , Anjolie was brought up in West Bengal's Burnpur where her grandfather was chairman of Martin and Burn.

Menon was born in Asansol (in what eventually became the Martin Burn guest house) and spent many years dragging after her Army officer father.

Anjolie Ela Menon chooses the latter, constantly re-defining the role she plays as an artist, refusing to be categorised.

Anjolie Ela Menon (b) UNTITLED Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist.

Her paintings are in several major collections, including the NGMA, the Chandigarh Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum.^[1] In , her triptych work "Yatra" was acquired by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California.

Other works also been a part of group exhibitions including 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in London's Aicon Gallery in Her preferred medium is oil on masonite,^[2] though she has also worked in other media, including Murano glass, computer graphics and water colour.

She is a well known muralist. She was awarded the Padma Shree in ^[3] She lives and works in New Delhi.^[4]

Early life

Anjolie Ela Menon was born on 17 July , in Burnpur, Bengal [now in West Bengal], India and is of mixed Bengali and American parentage.^[5] Her ancestors