Born 1975, Bhubaneswar, India.
In his detailed mixed-media paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Jagannath Panda mixes mythology with reality, blending motifs from traditional Indian art with images from both Western and Indian contemporary culture. The natural and the manmade collide and coalesce both seamlessly and uncomfortably in his works. Panda illustrates the paradoxes inherent in India’s burgeoning development and prosperity, recontextualizing the life of the Delhiite within a metaphysical, almost transcendental framework.
Panda holds a BFA from BK College of Art and Crafts, Bhubaneswar (1991), a MFA in Sculpture from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (1994), and an additional MFA in Sculpture from Royal College of Arts, London (2002). Panda has exhibited internationally, and his works are held in several collections, including at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi and at the Mori Art Museum, in Fukuoka, Japan.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi.