Minam apang biography of william

An artist known for her abstract landscapes and references to regional folklore, Minam Apang works with ink and charcoal. While mythology and popular stories were the primary focus of her early work, she later became interested in the psychological experience of familiarity and recognition when viewing an image.

Apang was born in Naharlagun, Arunachal Pradesh.

She attended an exchange program at the University of Leeds, UK in followed by a BA from Elmhurst University, Illinois in and an MFA from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai in After spending a few years in Bengaluru, Apang shifted to Goa in the late s. She experimented with techniques like automatic drawing and working with blemishes or folds in the paper for a few years after graduation, developing an interest in treating images as sites of intuition and recognition, which she would return to, later in her work.

In the late s, Apang made ink paintings on paper depicting creatures and landscapes from myths that were part of the ora