Born in Mumbai in 1949, Mrinalini Mukherjee is the daughter of renowned artists Benode Behari and Leela Mukherjee. She studied Painting at the Faculty of Fine Art, M.S. University, Baroda (1965-1970), and then studied mural design under artists like K.G. Subramanyan, receiving a Post-Diploma in the field in 1970.

Mukherjee's recent bronzes, like her earlier sculptures, are inspired by nature and its energies and elements. They are reminiscent of the artfulness of ancient temples, where the plethora of plant life is abstracted and contained by anthropomorphic statuaries, and where leafy tendrils cover the walls and pillars. Intricately worked, these sculptures encompass the history of the divine icon with its origin in the organic world and the human body, at a stage when all life participated in the sacred.

The shapes the sculptor creates, using the lost-wax process of casting or ceriperdue, are symbolic of continuous movement and evolution, possessing a quality of living plants that emerge and stir and burst into flowers. These pieces are an extension of Mukherjee's iconic early work with natural fibers like hemp, and her ceramic goddesses-blossoms series from the 1990s.

The artist passed away on February 2, 2015.