Maksud Ali Mondal was born in Bankura, West Bengal, India. He completed BFA and MFA from Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, in 2019 and the Royal Academy of Art, Netherlands, in 2016. 

His practice includes facilitating experiential understanding of disintegrative processes of nature through site-specific, performative, and time-based installation, using sculpture, painting, video and photography, including temperature, humidity, moisture, damp, and light.

His work generates reflections on how we understand ourselves concerning each other, including other species, organisms and society, fostering a critical dialogue with socio-political and ecological discourse in the contemporary environment.

His work deals with microbial contamination as a conversational expression, grounded in the observation of listening, seeing, and experiencing where life is being forced, suppressed, controlled, and dominated, based on their behavior, name, language, religion, color, identity, and is defined through the question of valuable or valueless, purity or impurity. These reflect in his works as a form of unconsidered, unnoticed, neglected, abandoned, or non-human interactions.​

He received an award from Micropia, Science Museum, Amsterdam, 2024, and an international award from the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale in 2019, the INLAKS Fine Art Award in 2021, the FICA Emerging Artist Award 2020, and the National Award from the Ministry of Culture, India, in 2018. His work has been showcased at the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2025; Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2025; Micropia Science Museum, Amsterdam, 2024; Critical Zones, Indian Museum, Kolkata, 2023; Five Million Incidents, Goethe Institut Delhi, 2020; among others.

Maksud recently finished a two-year residency program at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands