Anjolie Ela Menon is one of India's leading contemporary artists. She is a renowned Indian painter and muralist with a body of work that spans six decades and multiple genres and mediums. Menon is known for her luminous paintings on masonite, made with translucent layers of paint that are burnished to a soft glow. Menon has been named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government and received a prestigious Padma Shri award from the government of India.