
Kumudini Hajra
Lisbon
Kumudini Hajra is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers around printmaking, photography, painting, and drawing.
MessageKumudini Hajra (b. near Delhi, India) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice centers around printmaking, photography, painting, and drawing. In 2021 she began working at Celeiro Printmaking Studio in Colares, Portugal, and in 2023 she advanced her training in printmaking at Contraprova Studio in Lisbon and in 2025 through an extended residency at Aviário Studio in Ferreira do Zêzere. Her printmaking frequently explores abstraction and spontaneity as a tool for understanding identity and place. Inspired by nature, especially the textures and organic forms of the Atlantic coast—rocks, cliffs, and tidal pools—her photography often informs her etching process. She has participated in group exhibitions in the Glasgow Gallery of Photography (UK) and the Freguesias de Cascais & Estoril Gallery (Portugal), and is published in several Shutter Hub collections (UK).
Her work will be exhibited at the The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers exhibition at the Bankside Gallery in London, UK, in September 2025 and in 2026 she will study at the Mokuhanga Innovation Lab, Echizen, Japan.
Statement
Kumudini Hajra responds to the serenity she finds from frequent visits to Southern Portugal, documenting water formations through her Macro camera lens, into work that reflects and responds to inner processes of becoming. Her artworks were developed in Contraprova (Lisbon) and during residencies at Aviário Studio (Ferreira do Zêzere), using intaglio printmaking techniques including soap ground, sugar-lift and other conventional materials.
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