Kadambari Koli-Tandel

Kadambari Koli-Tandel (b. 1983), is a Mumbai-based artist with a Masters in Visual Art from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai (2016) and a Degree in Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting) from Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai (2007). 

She has been part of various group shows which include Critical Zones: In Search of a Common Ground, Goethe Institut, Mumbai and Kolkata (2022); New Natures: A Terrible Beauty is Born, curated by Ravi Agarwal, Goethe Institut, Mumbai (2022); All Canaries Bear Watching, curated by Premjish Achari, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2022).

Conducted workshops with children during Geographies of consumptions, Mumbai (2015); workshop in the ongoing Cycle 2: Estuaries of wanning sounds, part of the Tandel Fund of Archives (2021) and with the “Roots and shoots”, members of the Jane Goodall Institute India (2025). 

Some of her public art projects include Tandel Fund of Archives (since 2019), pop-up museum of fisherfolk, Mumbai (since 2019). Part of the POP -UP museums done in various Koliwada’s of Mumbai, which builds up the archive, with the help of research, community narratives and book publications projects.

She currently lives and works in Thane, Mumbai.