Rabin Mondal was born in 1929 in Howrah, West Bengal, India.

In 2006, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (Christ With Cross) (1963), offered in the Masterpieces & Museum Quality Series VI: With Rare Drawings and Books on Indian Contemporary Art by Osian's, which concluded on 01 March 2006 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹29,90,000 ($67,418). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

In 2005, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Genocide II (1972), offered in the Indian and Southeast Asian Art: Including Modern Indian Paintings from The Wilberding Collection by Sotheby's, which concluded on 20 September 2005 at New York, achieving a sale price of ₹28,98,060 ($66,000). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

The urban situation is very complex. Modernism implies a discarding of mythical structures, but the residual elements of myths still exist not only among religious but among intellectuals too. Social scientists have altered these to their taste and made them fashionable. To communicate your experience aesthetically you have to reverse the process of demythologization and to revitalize myths once more. Perhaps the human fear of disorder, chaos and the complexity of life can only be related through myths. In my work I try visually to relate myths to existential uprootedness and disruption, I do not work from any particular myth but the general mythical feelings about creation and destruction, sin and propitiation - eschatology. I am not only talking about the disorder that is set in motion by the misuse of political power, but also pointing out what the abuse of technology has inflicted on us.

Art is an expression of my innermost self. I portray emotions with my brush, oils, pencil, and charcoal. And before I can exercise it on the canvas, I am transported into another world. I gradually find my canvas coming alive.

In 2014, Kingdom of Exile A Rabin Mondal Retrospective marked a major milestone in the exhibition history of Rabin Mondal, offering a retrospective survey of the artist's artistic production