ABOUT
JOYA MUKERJEE LOGUE
Joya Mukerjee Logue (b. 1976, Springfield, Ohio, USA) is an American painter of Indian heritage whose work explores the atmosphere of human connection.
Drawing on visual cues from lived experience and collected imagery, she composes intimate scenes of gatherings, glances, and social thresholds. Her paintings extend a lineage of atmospheric modernism, using light, tone, and restraint to privilege mood over narrative. Mukerjee Logue's work reflects a diasporic experience that is not an either/or, but an expansive and—an authentically American voice shaped by more than one cultural tradition. That layered perspective gives her paintings an emotional resonance that is at once deeply personal and universal.
Mukerjee Logue holds degrees in biology, chemistry, and psychology from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her artistic formation developed through sustained, largely self-directed study, drawing on the observational discipline of the sciences and the perceptual acuity of psychology.
Following her first major solo exhibition, Those Who Walk Before Me, presented by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2024, Mukerjee Logue made her United States solo debut with Your Presence Is Requested at Ruttkowski;68, New York in 2026. She has exhibited across the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and India. Her work is held in the collection of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, as well as significant private collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mukerjee Logue is represented by Vadehra Art Gallery in India and by Ruttkowski;68 in the United States and Europe. She lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Selected Solo exhibitions:
2026 ‘Your Presence is Requested’, Ruttkowski;68, New York City, USA
2024 ‘Those Who Walk Before Me’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2023 'Memory Keepers', Cromwell Place, London, UK
2023 'Memoir', Cromwell Place, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 ‘Without Fixed Form’, By Ruttkowski;68 & Penske Projects, Paris, France
2025 Frieze London, Vadehra Art Gallery, London, UK
2025 Untitled Houston, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Houston, USA
2025 Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2025 ‘Contemporary Art’, Vadehra Art Gallery with Ashvita’s Art Gallery, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India
2025, Art Basel Hong Kong, Vadehra Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2025 ‘Exhibitionism’, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
2025 India Art Fair, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2024 Art Mumbai, Vadehra Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2024 Delhi Contemporary Art Week, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2024 London Gallery Weekend, Frieze No 9 Cork St , Vadehra Art Gallery, London, UK
2023 'Happy When it Rains', High Line Nine, New York City, USA
2023 ‘London Calling’, Cromwell Place, London, UK
2022 'Welcome Home', 21C Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2021 'Soul Plates: Pass the Culture', Annex Gallery, Cincinnati, USA
2019 'Razia's Garden', (installation), Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Public collections include:
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi
Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum, Ahmedabad
Press:
Architectural Digest
Indian Express - Indulge
The Print
India Today
New Indian Express
https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2024/Sep/14/a-permanent-presence-of-the-past
The Hindu
New Indian Express
https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2024/Sep/10/home-is-where-the-art-is
The Tribune
Platform Mag
https://www.platform-mag.com/art/those-who-walk-before-me.html
Stir World
“Joya Mukerjee Logue’s workspace is a painting-within-a-painting marvel”
Through an oeuvre that reflects the innate love she feels for her Indian roots, painter Joya Mukerjee Logue proves that home is where the art is… By Sadaf Shaikh
Additional Press in
Harper’s Bazaar India, Vogue India, Times of India, Elle Home Decor India, Elle Japan, Vogue Japan, Architectural Digest India, T2 Telegraph India, Arts of Hindostan, Sunday Midday Mumbai, The Voice of Fashion, Who Wore What When, Where Women Create, Cincinnati Magazine, Jaipur Journal, Cocoa & Jasmine, City Beat Cincinnati