Artist

Born in Calcutta, 1941. Graduated from Govt. College of Arts & Crafts, Calcutta in 1963. Between 1966 and 1969 received French Govt. Scholarship to study painting/printmaking at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris.

Akhilesh was born in Indore. His father was a teacher of art in Madhya Pradesh. Akhilesh consciously resisted all attempts at becoming an artist initially but the final year of school saw his resolve weakening.

Aditya Basak was born in 1953. He graduated from Government College of Art & Crafts , Kolkata.

Abdulrahim Appabhai Almelkar (10th October 1920- 12th December 1982) was born in Ahemdabad, Gujarat. He joined Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai and graduated in 1948.

Abdul Aziz "A. A." Raiba (20 July 1922 – 15 April 2016) was an Indian painter. Educated at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay (1942–46), Raiba started painting professionally in the early 1950s.

Professor Santhanaraj is considered by many in South India to be the most influential artist of the second wave that followed K.C.S.Panniker and S. Dhanapal out of the Madras College of Arts and Craft.

Achutan Ramachandran Nair, popularly known as A. Ramachandran, is an Indian painter, born in 1935 in Attingal, Kerala. In 2002.

Abanindranath Tagore, the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore, was one of the most prominent artists of India.

Abstract artist, Achuthan Kudallur, is a well-regarded name in the South Indian contemporary art

Adeela Suleman is a contemporary Pakistani sculptor and artist, based in Karachi. She is known for the social and political commentary underlying her sculptures, which are created out of mundane, everyday objects

Aditya Pande (b. 1976) received a degree in Graphic Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, in 2001. Pande’s solo exhibitions have been presented by institutions including Nature Morte, New Delhi, India; Aicon Gallery, New York, US; Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai; and Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, UK.

Aji V.N.’s works are an investigation into the picture-making possibilities of line, form, tone, dimension, presence, distance, and illusion. In the nature of things as well as their representation, one can find an affinity, a basic repertoire that can be observed and drawn out by the artist.

Akbar Padamsee continued to resist easy categorization. Throughout his illustrious career spanning almost seven decades, he had remained fiercely experimental, individualistic, and original.

Ali Kazim was born in Pakistan, in 1979. Currently he lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. He received his BFA degree from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan in 2002 and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, in 2011.

Amar Nath Sehgal (5 February 1922 – 28 December 2007) was a noted Indian modernist sculptor, painter, poet and art educator. He started his career as an engineer in Lahore, and later turned to art. 

Amitava Das was born in New Delhi in 1947 and graduated from the Delhi College of Art in 1972. His work is primarily based on human situations, where man is both the creator and the destroyer. The natural and artificial are cleverly fused to show the interdependence of the man-made and natural worlds.

Born in 1976, Amitesh Verma graduated in 2004 with a BFA in Painting from College of Art, University of Delhi, New Delhi. He has has been an artist-in-residence at Small Pond Arts, Ontario, Canada (2010), and at CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France (2009), as well as participating in art camps and workshops in India and countries such as Russia, Turkey, Singapore and Thailand.

Amrita Sher-Gil was a Hungarian-Indian painter. She has been called "one of the greatest avant-garde women artists of the early 20th century" and a pioneer in modern Indian art. Drawn to painting from an early age, Sher-Gil started formal lessons at the age of eight.

Born in Kolkata in 1965, Anandajit Ray completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at M. S. University, Baroda, in 1989 and 1991 respectively.

Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987, New York, 

Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, Kapoor manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work.

One of India’s best known and leading contemporary artist, Anjolie was born on July 17, 1940 in Burnpur, Bengal to a Bengali and American parentage. Over the years, her work has evolved in a manner entirely distinctive, instantly recognizable and seemingly without parallel in contemporary Indian art.

Anjum Singh was an Indian artist whose works focused on urban ecology, environmental degradation, and her own struggles with cancer. She was born in New Delhi, India, and she continued to live and work there. Singh was the daughter of noted Indian artists Arpita Singh and Paramjit Singh.

Anthony James is a British-American artist based in Los Angeles, known for his monumental installations and sculptures. He was born in England in 1974 and studied in London at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 1994 to 1998. His work gestures towards minimalism, materiality, process, alchemy, language, mechanisation and experimentation with light and space.

Anu Agarwal is an Indian Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1977.Anu Agarwal's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 1,381 USD to 12,019 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

Arpana Caur is an Indian contemporary painter and graphic artist. Arpana Caur exhibits dynamism and deep insight in her depictions of women’s conditions in modern India.

Arpita Singh is an Indian artist. Known to be a figurative artist and a modernist, her canvases have both a story line and a carnival of images arranged in a curiously subversive manner. Her artistic approach can be described as an expedition without destination. Her work reflects her background.

Arup Das is a figurative painter and an acclaimed muralist. Human figures occupy the central position in his paintings. Das attempts to portray man as a social and historical being, placed within the framework of his cultural and natural environment. He is as comfortable painting with oils as he is with watercolours.

Asim Waqif is an Indian artist based in New Delhi, whose work is influenced by interdisciplinary fields of art, architecture, ecology and design

Asit Kumar Haldar (10 September 1890 – 13 February 1964) was an Indian painter of Bengal school and an assistant of Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan. He was one of the major artists of the Bengal renaissance.

Atul Basu (22 February 1898 – 10 July 1977) was an Indian painter. He was an expert in portraying realistic landscapes, portraits and village scenery. He used oil colors for painting.

Born in Bombay, India on January 20, 1959, to a family that had migrated to the west-coast metropolis from Kathiawar in Gujarat, 

Avinash Chandra (28 August 1931 – 15 September 1991) was an Indian painter, who lived and worked in the United Kingdom.

Amitava Dhar is a contemporary artist considered well established. Amitava Dhar was born in 1957. 

Amitava Das was born in New Delhi in 1947 and graduated from the Delhi College of Art in 1972. His work is primarily based on human situations, where man is both the creator and the destroyer. The natural and artificial are cleverly fused to show the interdependence of the man-made and natural worlds. He tries to bring out the inner struggles of men placed in difficult times.

Born in West Bengal, Arindam Chatterjee studied painting at the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan and has since exhibited nationally and internationally. A prominent abstract painter in the late 1990s and 2000s, he turned to figurative art to engage more directly with the social and political life of society.