About Meenakshi Mukerji

About Meenakshi Mukerji

Meenakshi Mukerji (Adhikari) was introduced to origami as a child by her uncle Bireswar Mukhopadhyay. She rediscovered origami in 1995 in its modular form quite by chance when she was living in Pittsburgh, PA. A friend took her to a class taught by Doug Philips and ever since, she has been designing modular origami and displaying it on her very popular website. In 2005, Origami USA presented her with the Florence Temko award for generously sharing her work on the internet. In April 2007, A K Peters Ltd published her first origami book Marvelous Modular Origami which became an origami best seller within the year.

Meenakshi was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She obtained her degree in Electrical Engineering at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and then came to the United States to pursue a Masters in Computer Science. She worked in the software industry for over a decade but is now at home in California with her husband and two children to enrich their lives and to practice origami. She is currently working on her second book. People who have provided her with much origami inspiration and encouragement are Rosalinda Sanchez, David Petty, Francis Ow, Rona Gurkewitz, Robert Lang, Rachel Katz, Ravi Apte and the viewers of her website.

The Encyclopedia of Origami
by Nick Robinson,
ISBN: 0762418958

A full page photo of QRSTUVWXYZ Stars
appeared in the "Origami Around The World"
section.

Nov 2007

Ultrapassando Fronteiras com o Origami
(Exceeding Borders with Origami) by Bruno Ferraz,
ISBN: 978-85-7393-630-8
Published by
Editora Ciência Moderna, Brazil

Diagrams for my Whirl Cube were published.

2007

PAPIROFLEXIA Y GEOMETRÍA
by EDUARDO GIL MORÉ,
ISBN: 978-84-8412-411-5
Published by
Miguel A Salvatella, Spain

My Plain Cube diagrams adapted for many other constructions were published.

	March 2008 British Origami Society Spring 2008 Nottingham Convention Collection published diagrams for my Blintz Base model.
	Sept 2007: British Origami Society 40th Anniversary Collection published diagrams for my Flowered Sonobe model. May 2007: French Origami Society MFPP Convention Collection published diagrams for my Flowered Sonobe model.
	September 2006 British Origami Society Autumn 2006 Bristol Convention Collection published diagrams for my Star Windows model.
May-August 2003: Origami notable David Petty's website featured diagrams of my ten planar designs in Special Guest Folders.
	August 2003 Centro Diffusione Origami Quadrato Magico #71 published diagrams for my Primrose Floral Ball.
	April 2001 Scaffold Vol , Issue 3, published diagrams for my Thatch Cube.

Origami USA magazine Paper 97, March 2008, has an article by me titled "My Book Writing Experience". It also has a review of Marvelous Modular Origami and features a couple of my model photos.

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Exhibitions

Jan 2008: American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Association of America Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, Exhibition of Mathematical Art Catalog, ISBN: 978-0-9802191-0-4. My Poinsettia Floral Ball was exhibited and featured on the catalog cover.	Nov 2007: PCOC, Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by Saswati Chakladar)
June 2007: OUSA Convention, New York, NY (Photo by Julie Savard)	Sept 2005: PCOC, Phoenix, AZ.