Muktinath Mandal holds a BFA from Indira Kala Sangeet Viswa Vidyalaya, Chhattisgarh and also received M.F.A. from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Muktinath has participated in several shows in India – including Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Bhopal ,Chennai and Hyderabad. Muktinath received Merit scholarships from the University of Hyderabad and has also been awarded for best painting in college exhibition. Muktinath lives and work in Vadodara. His works emerge as a personal response to his immediate environment, the diversity of cultures and ecological landscapes around him. These definitely enrich the range of representation and imagery in his work. He focuses on these objects, like the hand-held lantern, tube well, rice flatter, pump machines, clay made vessels, hand pulled rickshaw and some other which are mainly used by rural people- potters, carpenters, iron-smith, fishermen, milkmen, boatmen, weavers, farmers and rickshaw-pullers, inside some exotic plants.