Bandana Kumari

About Bandana Kumari

Bandana Kumari completed her studies in painting from The College of Arts and Crafts, Patna University. She participated in many group shows and solo shows. She received The Mahua Art Gallery & HK Kejriwal Foundation's HK Kejriwal Young Artist Award, Bangalore, 2018; the Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation M.P. State Award, 2017-18; and the Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow, U.P., award, 2016-17. She was a fellow artist at the Centre for Culture Resources and Training (under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India), CCRT-2018. She received a National Scholarship from the Govt. of India, Ministry of Culture, HRD-2011. Her paintings consist of birds, animals, plants, flowers and much more. When God created this world, he also made human beings the wisest species on this earth. In her paintings she presents women as the strongest creature of God; she shows women as a bird, moon, stars etc. in her painting. Similarly, animals such as the lion, bear, horse, bull and elephant describe the characteristics of a male. In this world, whatever is outside in nature is present inside the human being. Most of the time in her paintings she makes the body of a human being with the head of an animal. In our society we give respect to a female god, but when it comes to woman, people underestimate them; we think that they are incapable, but they are forgetting that when it is needed they can become a female god — that is reflected in her painting.