Lakshita Munjal is an architect and visual artist based in Gurgaon. Her professional education began at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, where she did her BArch (2016-2021), followed by an MA in printmaking at The Royal College of Arts, London (2022-2023), where her work began to integrate art and architecture using printmaking and product design.
She has exhibited work across the London Design Festival, India Design ID, Southwark Park Gallery, etc in an attempt to question design and its representation across multiple media. As a founding partner of blurck, a multidisciplinary design collective, she continues to work at the intersection of the two disciplines.
Education
2022-2023 | MA | Royal College of Art, London
2020 | Exchange programme at ETSAM, Madrid
2016 - 2021 | BArch | CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 | November | 'Phantom Boundaries; the window' at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2024 | London
2024 (Ongoing until March 2025) | October | REFLECTOR group show, by GRAIN at The New Art Gallery Walsall | Walsall
2024 | October | Home Home | a London house
2024 | September | तुला Tulā (blurck x dasein lab), London Design Festival | London
2024 | September | Phantom boundaries;chair | Chair of Virtue, London Design Festival | One Hundred Shoreditch, London
2024 | RBSA Print prize exhibition, Birmingham
2024 | Assembly | St Giles' Jazz Crypt, Camberwell, London
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2023 | Phantom Boundaries; the window Selected for ‘small but mighty’ at Bankside Gallery by Royal
Society of Painter-Printmaker
2023 | Phantom Boundaries’room no2’ at MP Birla Millenium Gallery | London
2023 | Reflection as Reflexivity for Maxwell’s Drawer Exhibition | London
2023 | Phantom Boundaries’room no1’ at the RCA Graduate Show | London
2023 | Reflection as Reflexivity at Southwark Park Gallery | London
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2022 | 'Threshold' at Fine Liquid Gallery | London
2022 | PhotoConstruct_02 | Leh
Residencies/Programmes
2023 - 2024 | Recipient of the REFLECTOR programme, by GRAIN Projects in partnership with
The New Art, Gallery Walsall and ArtFund
2021 | PhotoConstruct_02, Leh | Farside Collective and Round Them Oranges
Press
Publications
2023 | ‘those running minds’ (poem) published in The Pluralist; Nov Edition
2023 | 'let the light turn green!' (book) published under Royal College of Art (edition of 4)
2022 | 'threshold' (book) compilation of London's footpaths, self-published (edition of 1)
2021 | Cover piece; ‘Tribute to Robert Powell’, for Design United, India
2021 | 'partial edges' (photobook) developed during PhotoConstruct_02,
published by FarsideCollective (edition of 3)
Awards/Scholarships
2023 | Graduate Award ‘Class of 2023’ | Art Fervour, India
2021 | Nirmal Dhingra Sachdev Trust Scholarship for research thesis titled
‘Decoding Housing Advertisements’