Artists

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

Anita Roy Chowdhury was born into a distinguished family, which provided her with a unique backdrop of privilege and cultural influence. From a young age, she demonstrated a strong affinity for art, showcasing her imagination and innovative spirit. This early passion laid the foundation for her artistic journey.

One of India’s best known and leading contemporary artist, Anjolie Ela Menon 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.

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.   

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.

Ashoke Mullick is an artist who was born in 1957. The artist's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 437 USD to 1,220 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2021 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,220 USD for Top, sold at Hessink’s in 2021.

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.

Asit Kumar Patnaik, born in Orissa in 1968, is a celebrated semi-realistic figurative painter. A gold medallist, he earned his BFA from the Govt. College of Art and Crafts, Khallikote, and his MFA in Painting from BHU, Varanasi. His art delves into human relationships and the psyche, blending sensitivity with striking color and texture. Through semi-clad male and female figures in open-ended postures, he evokes complex emotions, sensuality, and mystery. Patnaik has received several accolades, including national scholarships and fellowships, and has exhibited globally in over 40 shows. His works are housed in collections worldwide. He lives in New Delhi.

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.

Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal commonly known as B. C. Sanyal (22 April 1901 – 9 August 2003), the doyen of modernism in Indian art, was an Indian painter and sculptor and an art teacher to three generations of artists. 

Born 1933, Village Bela, Nagpur, Maharashtra. She studied at the Nagpur School of Art and graduation of the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai. She held her first exhibition, while she was a student, her three paintings were acquired by eminent Indian scientist Homi J. Bhabha. Her inspiration was eminent artist Amrita Shergil. She won First prize in the Bombay State Art Exhibition of 1958; AIFACS Award, New Delhi.

His works are collected in Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi; Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata; and Government Museum, Chandigarh. He is a Member of the Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata, since 1974 and has received seven awards.

Born in Maharashtra in 1935, B Vithal studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. He was an artist who was a master sculptor and painter. While his sculptural works were known for their monumentality his paintings captured the personal and intimate.

Badri Narayan was an Indian artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954.

Baiju Parthan (born 1956 in Kerala), is a painter of intermedia art in India.

Born in Andhra Pradesh in 1966, Bari Kumar studied at the Rishi Valley School founded by philosopher J. Krishnamurti. In his teens, he moved to L.A. to study graphic design at Otis/Parsons Scool of Design, graduating in 1988. Like numerous Asian artists living in the United States, Bari Kumar`s work is a reflection of his bicultural experiences.

Barun Chowdhury was initiated into the arts via a diploma course in painting from the Bangiya Sangeet Parishad,Kolkata in 1989. On its completion in 1991 he went on to get his BVA in Painting from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata University, Kolkata in 1996. He completed his masters in graphics from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda in 1999.

Benode Behari Mukherjee (7 February 1904 – 11 November 1980) was an Indian artist from West Bengal state. Mukherjee was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism. He was one of the earliest artists in modern India to take up to murals as a mode of artistic expression. All his murals depict a subtle understanding of environmental through pioneering architectural nuances.

Bernard Buffet (10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his career but was shunned by art pundits later on.

Bharti Kher is a contemporary artist. In a career spanning nearly three decades, she has worked across painting, sculpture and installation. Throughout her practice she has displayed an unwavering relationship with the body, its narratives, and the nature of things.

Bhupen Khakhar was a seminal Indian painter known for his intimate scenes of figures amidst richly colored landscapes. Calling to mind both Indian miniatures and Henri Rousseau, Khakhar’s motifs included a watch repairman’s shop and scenes from Aesop’s Fables. “Human beings in their local environment, 

Bijan Choudhury (1931–2012) was a Bengal-born painter known for his activities as part of the Calcutta Painters in India.

Bikash Bhattacharjee (21 June 1940 – 18 December 2006) was an Indian painter from Kolkata in West Bengal. Through his paintings, he depicted the life of the average middle-class Bengali – their aspirations, superstitions, hypocrisy and corruption, and even the violence that is endemic to Kolkata. He worked in oils, acrylics, water-colours, conté and collage. In 2003, he was awarded the highest award of Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Arts, the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship.

(1917 - 1995) Born in Behrampur, West Bengal in 1917, Bimal Dasgupta was raised by his uncle, a government employee posted in Delhi. He studies Art at the Calcutta College of Arts and Crafts in 1937, however the war interrupted his studies and he found himself working as a clerk in a war office where his talents were put to use as an Assistant Director in charge of all artwork in the Victory magazine.

Biman Bihari Das was born on 1 January 1943, at Tamluk town of West Bengal, in India.  He studied art at the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and passed the Diploma in Modeling and Sculpture, in 1966, with first class and distinction. Later, he joined Calcutta University and passed the course of Teachers' Training and Art Appreciation in 1967.

Biren De (1926–2011) was an Indian painter of modern art, known for his paintings with tantric influences. His paintings were characterized by symmetrical patterns of geometry and the presence of tantric symbols such as mandala, phallus and vagina, reportedly representing masculine and feminine energies of the universe. 

Bolgum Nagesh Goud, born in 1965, is a gold medalist in Fine Arts from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad. Renowned for his stylized artworks inspired by the Mahabharata and Ramayana, his creations blend mythology with modernity, drawing from Andhra Pradesh's traditional leather puppetry. Goud’s works, characterized by bold colors, curvaceous forms, and intricate narratives, traverse figurative and abstract styles. He has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide, earning accolades including awards from the Hyderabad Art Society and JNTU. His art is part of prestigious collections, and he continues to live and work in Hyderabad.

Bose Krishnamachari is an Indian painter and artist-curator based in Mumbai, India. He was born in 1963 at Mangattukara village near Angamaly, Kerala. He had done his early schooling at Government Higher Secondary School, Puliyanam. He took his BFA from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1991, and then completed his MFA from Goldsmiths' College, University of London in 2000.

Indian artist Bratin Khan, known for his intricate tempera paintings that often depict Indian mythological themes and spiritual narratives. His works reflect the rich artistic traditions of Bengal, making them unique additions to any collection.

Brinda Miller studied at Parsons School of Design, New York and completed her Diploma in Textile Design from Sir J. J. School of Art.

Born in 1933 at Chikhli, Gujarat, he has completed G. D. A. (Painting) and Art master (AM). C D Mistry is an admirer of the early Indian Modernists. He admits to have been strongly attracted to their idea of art having a distinct ‘national’ character. As a result, a lot of his work revolves around folk art, stylizing it and making it into something completely different.

Chandan Roy is an Indian sculptor who mainly works with bronze. From religious sculptures of Ganesha to figurative works depicting people from different facets of society, Chandan Roy exhibits immense skill and a mastery of the medium.

Chandra Bhattacharjee was born in 1961 at Patuli (Bardhaman), West Bengal. He studied at the Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship, Kolkata and received a gold medal from Rabindra Bharati University in 1986 for excellence in fine arts. Bhattacharjee started his career as a billboard artist, working as a graphic designer with Economic Times. He first exhibited his work in a group show at the Academy of Fine Arts, in 1992.

Chintamoni Kar was born in Kharagpur, West Bengal in 1915. The Indian Society of Oriental Art, Calcutta, served as his alma mater. He studied sculpture at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, in 1938. On his return to India.

Chintan Upadhyay is known for creating provocative and incisive works that critique society in a decidedly tongue-in-cheek fashion. His signature leitmotif – babies (Chintus/Smart Alecs/Designer Babies) – functions both as symbol and surface on which meaning is created following their idiosyncratic requirements.

Born in Paris, Mazumder spent most of his childhood in Kolkata and in a remote area in rural Jharkhand. He received his initial art education from his father.

Damien Hirst, in full Damien Steven Hirst, (born June 7, 1965, Bristol, England), British assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist whose deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality.

David Hockney OM CH RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.[2][3]

Debabrata Chakraborty is an artist who was born in 1959 and received formal art training from the Government College of Art and Craft in Kolkata. His first piece to be auctioned was "Untitled" at Saffronart Mumbai in 2022. 

Exhibitions :
He has exhibited in several national and all-India exhibitions, including a solo show at Gallery Zen in 2002. 

Awards :
He has received the Birla Academy Award, State Lalit Kala Academy Award, and the Academy Award from Rabindra Bharati University. 

Creations :
He created a bronze bust of Rabindra Nath Tagore for Stafford on Avon, UK, a bronze bust of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee, and several large-scale statues of political leaders. 

Writing :
He was a regular art critic for Dainik Statesman and published more than 500 articles on art in various publications. 
You can purchase Debabrata Chakraborty's artworks, including paintings, prints, and sculptures, from indianmasterpainters.com

Debanjan Roy (b. 1975) completed his Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts (Sculpture) from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, in 1998, and Masters in Visual Arts (Sculpture) from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, in 2000. In 2016, he was also the artist in residence at the Château De La Napoule, Nice, under the Asiatic Museum, Nice, France, in collaboration with Akar Prakar, India.

Debasish Mukherjee (b. 1973) was born in Chapra, a historically important town in Bihar. He grew up amidst open spaces and railway colonies, mixing freely with people from various social backgrounds.

Dhananjay Singh was born in 1977 in Hajipur, Bihar. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the Faculty of Visual Arts of Banaras Hindu University, followed by a Master’s degree in the same from the M S University, Vadodara.

(1917 - 1988) Born in 1917 in Lahore, Dhanraj Bhagat received his diploma in the field from the Mayo School of Art in Lahore, after which he served as the head of the Sculpture Department at the College of Art, New Delhi, from 1947 to 1977. Bhagat’s work has been featured in several exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 1978.

Hailing from the state of West Bengal, Dharamanarayan Dasgupta studied at Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan. During the course of his search for a form that would adequately express his sentiments, he flirted with art styles that flourished as offshoots of traditional Indian art, mingled with Western ideals that were the trademark of the 19th century.

Best known for his sculptures, Dhruva Mistry combines religious art of ancient civilizations along with the popular art of the bazaar. His works bear a rich narrative quality and varies in style and scale- from small sculptures in bronze to monumental works for public spaces, made of sand, cement, stone and stainless steel.

Born in Rajasthan in 1974, Dileep Sharma completed his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Rajasthan School of Arts in Jaipur in 1996, followed by a Master's degree at the Sir J J School of Art in Mumbai in 1998.

The Art of Bengal, shown in 2012 at the Delhi Art Gallery in New Delhi, was Dipen Bose's only exhibition that was confirmed. India is the only country in which Dipen Bose exhibits. Bose only performs in groups, not solo shows (see biography for additional details). Alongside Sankho Chaudhuri and Meera Mukherjee, Dipen Bose has been on display.

A large number of anonymous oils on religious and mythological themes began to emerge in bengal in the late eighteenth–early nineteenth century from the french colony of chandernagore and the dutch colony of chinsurah. Variously called french or dutch bengal oils, they also came from other areas like chitpur and garanhata localities of calcutta and thus came to be known as early bengal oils.

She is of average height and looks much younger than her age. Her artistic works in the form of her canvases and sculptures are scattered in different nooks and crannies of the house. She thinks art begins at home. Eleena Banik is a young artist based in Kolkata. Having grown up in cosmopolitan Kolkata, the daily trials and tribulations of the working urban woman informed Eleena Banik’s works.

Francis Newton Souza, born on the 12th of April 1924 in Saligao, Goa, was the founder member of the Progressive Artists Group who is largely responsible for shaping the Modern Art movement in India. He was brought up a strict Roman Catholic under Portuguese Colonial rule and later a member of the Communist Party.

Born in 1973 Faiza Butt trained at the NCA in Lahore and the Slade School of Art in London. Her work has been shown in various museums and included in several publications.

Farhad Hussain was born in 1975 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Farhad completed his BFA from Shantiniketan and MFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda in 2005.

Perhaps the most famous contemporary Latin American artist alive, Fernando Botero was born in Medellin in 1932. After a stint at a matador school, Botero decided art was his true calling and in 1948, aged 16, he had his first exhibition.

G R Iranna is an artist whose work transcends the boundaries of time and space. Born in 1970, its been barely ten years since he started painting professionally, and already his work is mature and profound.

Gaganendranath Tagore (1867 – 1938) was born at Jorasanko in the Tagore family home in Calcutta. He was the nephew of Rabindranath Tagore. Though he didn't receive any formal education in painting later became a prominent figure of Bengal School of Art.

Ganesh Haloi's art has evolved through a series of transactions from pure landscape to the innerscapes.

Ganesh Pyne is obsessed with death. He can't forget his first brush with death, in the summer of 1946, when communal riots had rocked Kolkata. His family was forced out of their crumbling mansion. As he roamed around the city, he stumbled upon a pile of dead bodies. On the top was the body of a stark naked old woman, with wounds on her breast.

George Keyt (17 April 1901 – 31 July 1993) was a Sri Lankan painter. He is often considered Sri Lanka's most distinguished modern painter. Keyt's dominant style is influenced by cubism. He also claimed to be influenced by his contemporary Henri Matisse and the ancient Buddhist art and sculpture of Nagarjunakonda, Sanchi and Gandhara. The Jataka tales formed a recurring theme in many of his works.

Born in 1992 in West Midnapore, Ghana Shyam Latua studied painting in Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, graduating in 2017. His recent works, known for his noble pin-prick technique, speak of his love for pure, uninhabited landscapes and his lament for nature's destruction by the expansion of urbanisation and tourism.

A poet, playwright and figurative painter, as well as a practising physician, Gieve Patel is a self-taught artist whose work has largely focused on urban life and environmental conservation.

Gobardhan Ash (5 August 1907 – 22 December 1996) was an Indian artist and early modernist, according to art critic Sovom Som. According to Ebrahim Alkazi, "Gobardhan wielded considerable influence as an artist in the 1940s". He co-founded the Art Rebel Centre in 1933 and was a part of the Calcutta group. He was mentored by and close to artist Atul Bose.[6] Gobardhan worked as Chief Artist at the Indian Institute of Arts and Industry in Kolkata for two years in 1946 before becoming a Senior Teacher at the Indian Art School in 1953. Ranjit Hoskote specifically identifies Gobardhan's 1948 - 1951 period wherein Gobardhan "focusses on creating a style similar to various idioms within pattachitra into a consciousness that is clearly aware of cinema and animation"

An abstract painter, Gopal S.Adivrekar has taken the art of non-figurative painting to a new high. His canvases are unforgettable creations of colour. Born in 1938, in a small village of the Konkan(a district on the coast of Maharashtra).

Gopal Ghose was born in Calcutta, West Bengal on 5 December 1913. After obtaining a diploma in painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Jaipur in 1935, he trained in sculpture at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Chennai in 1938, where he studied under Debi Prasad Roy Choudhuri.

Gouranga has achieved over the years a solid and steady reputation as an artist. Marked by well-honed and meticulous execution and at the same time by an unstudied formal naivete, his canvases have an irresistible visual draw, both for their charming figurative content and fascinating scheme of colours. The finer points of his paintings are definitely his smooth brushwork; figuration of unforced simplicity, of no edgy angular realism or dramatic chiaroscuro; the tonal glows of complementary hues finished on top with a soft sensuous gleam.

"Painting to me is like poetry - timeless and universal." - GR Santosh

Poet-painter Gulam Rasool Santosh, who comes from the tragically beautiful Kashmir valley, was born in 1929, to a lower middle class family. The artists' contribution to tantric art spearheads the movement in the art world.

"You would never paint a religious picture in the secular and liberal atmosphere of an art school. You would never paint anything that you believed in. Someone should really work on how many themes artists deal with. They will find there are very few fit subjects for art."

The dark side of life as embodied by prostitutes and pimps slinking through the sleazy alleyways of crowded cities is what moves Gurcharan Singh to take up his paintbrush. Outcasts, the wretchedly poor living on the fringes of society and feeding on it and being fed on it in turn, form the basis of Singh's works. Walking down the less savory areas of cities, Gurcharan transferred his observations onto the canvas bringing to life people who are seldom thought of by their more fortunate brethren.

Born in 1976 in Chitradurga, Karnataka, Gurusiddappa G.E. completed his Bachelor’s degree in painting from the College of Fine Arts, Karnataka Chitra Parishath, Bangalore, in 1997.

Hari Ambadas Gade is considered one of the first abstract expressionist painters of post-independence India. One of the founders of the progressive art movement in India, he believed in an unconventional and dynamic artistic style. Like all the painters of the Progressive Artists Group, Gade revolted against the traditions of academic art, which the British education system had clamped on Indian art education.

Born on 26 March, 1934 in a small village named Valod of Gujarat, Haku Shah was a renowned figurative artist from Baroda School. The emotions of folk and tribal art of India inspired his skillset. An eminent artist, a cultural anthropologist, teacher, Gandhian, an author of international repute on folk and tribal art, Haku Shah has spread his artistic wings in varied aspects of art.

Born in Dinajpur in present day Bangladesh on 1 February 1921, Das took a diploma in fine art, with specialisation in graphic arts, from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, in 1938. Upon graduation, he joined his alma mater as a lecturer and soon introduced line engraving and etching in the college’s curriculum.

Hema Upadhyay (born Hema Hirani; 1972 – 11 December 2015) was an Indian artist based in Mumbai. She was known for photography and sculptural installations. She was active from 1998 until her death in 2015.

Born in 1894, in what is now Bangladesh, Hemendranath Mazumdar was a painter of exceptional talent. Although he was praised for his fine treatment of pastels, watercolors and chalks, his real skill lay in the way he handled the oil medium.Women of his native (erstwhile) Bengal, most bathing or draped in wet saris are considered Mazumdar`s classical trademark.

Born in 1969, New Delhi. Hemraj studied at the College of Art, New Delhi in 1987 - 1993. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of mediums. His work encompasses paintings, sculpture and photography. In Delhi's art world, he is a familiar face. Working mostly in oil, Hemraj has produced a remarkable body of oil painting over the years. 

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. 

Himmat Shah was born in 1933 at Lothal in Gujarat. After initially training as a drawing teacher, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University, Baroda, from 1956 to 1960. He was a National Cultural Scholar in 1956, and received a French Government scholarship to study etching at Atelier 17, Paris in 1967.

Homi Patel was an Indian Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1928.Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sakshi Gallery have featured Homi Patel's work in the past.Homi Patel's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 571 USD to 54,480 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. 

Horace van Ruith was a British painter who was born in 1839.Grosvenor Gallery featured Horace van Ruith's work in the past. Horace van Ruith's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 212 USD to 384,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 384,500 USD for UNTITLED (A BRAHMIN HOUSEHOLD), sold at Sotheby's New York in 2017.The artist died in 1923.

Indrapramit Roy was born in 1964 to a family steeped in the arts: his father was associated with Bohuroopi, one of the premier theatre groups and mother was a sitar player. He studied print making at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan and painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M S University, Baroda.

Isha Mahammad was an Indian artist who obtained his diploma in painting and drawing from the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta in 1958. He pursued further studies in West Germany and was influenced by the German Expressionist group and European modernism. He exhibited widely and his works can be found in the collections of various institutions including the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and the Museum for Indian Art, Berlin. He received awards for his graphic art and painting

Ismail Gulgee was a contemporary Pakistani painter and sculptor known for both his representational portraits and calligraphic abstractions.

Born in a bombay-based business family, j. sultan ali’s first act of rebellion was to leave the safety of the family trade and join sculptor-teacher d. p. roy chowdhury at the government college of art in madras in 1945.

Jagdish Swaminathan (Indian, 1928–1994) was born in Simla, and briefly educated at Delhi Polytechnic, and later in Warsaw, Poland. In his early days, he joined the Communist Party of India, where he worked as a journalist and art critic for Left magazine until the mid 1950s.

Born in Orissa in 1969, Jagannatha Mohapatra is an Indian Asian Modern & Contemporary artist. He completed his B.F.A. in 1999 from Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, Visva Bharati and M.F.A (2001) from M.S University, Baroda.

The visual imagery of Jagannath Panda’s work is deceptively simple: it comprises of linear drawing and a rendered form or two, which seem to float on the surface. His drawings are very realistic, yet he does not offer the viewer a reference to the subject’s existence, or rather he does not recreate a sense of panorama in his paintings.

Born in 1954, Jagdish studied painting from the University of Delhi (1972- 1977). He was a research scholar from 1984-86 at the Department of Fine Arts, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Jai Zharotia Born in Delhi in 1945, Jai Zharotia studied Fine arts from Delhi College of Arts from 1967-71. He became an art teacher at the Bal Bhavan before becoming a lecturer at Alma Mater in 1974.

Jamini Roy is one of the major artists from the 20th century in the Indian art history and is regarded as the early masters of modernism in Indian art.

Jangarh Singh Shyam belonged to the Gond community of Mandla district in Madhya Pradesh. In 1981, artist J Swaminathan discovered his talent and brought him to work at the Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, when Jangarh was just 16.

Janine Mongillat was a French artist who was born in 1929.Janine Mongillat's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 156 USD to 1,943 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

Jatin Das was born on 2 December 1941 in Baripada Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India. He studied at the Sir JJ School of Art, Bombay, under Professor S.B. Palsikar.

Jatin Das is a painter, poet, sculptor, muralist, print-maker, teacher, cultural expert and Founder Chairman of the JD Centre of Art.

Jayashree Chakravarty was born in Khoai in Tripura in 1956, but grew up in a developing suburb of Kolkata. Witnessing the lush green landscape of her childhood give way to a grey mass of concrete would later influence her work, which often addresses old and new cityscapes.

She is a member of an extended Family Of eminent Artist: her husband, Paresh Maity ; uncle Sakti Burman who lives and works in France, though he is considered an Indian artist; and her cousin, Maya Burman . In 2005, she helped create an exhibition called "The Family" featuring work of all these artists.

Jeffrey Lynn Koons ( born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. 

The Star that Beckons is the first of three canvases with the same title, which Jehangir Sabavala painted over the course of three decades. The Star that Beckons II and III were painted in 1999.

Jeram Patel was born in 1930 at Sojitra in the Kaira district of Gujarat. He studied drawing and painting at Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai between 1950 and 55, and typography and publicity design at Central School of Arts and Craft, London for two years till 1959.

"My art is more like a researcher's project who uses quotes rather than an essay,with each painting necessitating a bibliography," Jitish Kallat, while defining his art.

Joan Miro, (born April 20, 1893, Barcelona, Spain—died December 25, 1983, Palma, Majorca), Catalan painter who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy.

Educated at the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta and subsequently at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, Jogen is one painter who has inspired young artists of contemporary India, in a significant way. R. Siva Kumar, the reputed art historian, has lucidly described Jogen's works in the following excerpt.

Julius Macwan is an Indian Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1968.Julius Macwan's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 204 USD to 1,390 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

A graduate of the Sir J.J. School of Art, Justin draws his influences from this city whose landscape is constantly under construction. The domain he deals with ranges from the material "plastic" to a state of mind that is unfortunately plastic; what he would like to term as "Plastic Memory".

In contemporary art, it is no longer easy to read the intentions of the artist, whose often opaque work carries with it a critique of social mores that is at least as important as the visual content of its imagery.

Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt (12 March 1934) Better Known as Jyoti Bhatt', is an Indian artist best known for his modernist work in painting and printmaking and also his photographic documentation of rural Indian culture.

Kovalezhi Cheeramputhoor Sankara Paniker (31 May 1911 – 16 January 1977) was an Indian metaphysical and abstract painter from Malabar District.

Born in Kerala on 15 February 1924, K G Subramanyan was among the leading artists who sought to explore a post-Independence Indian identity through art.

Born in 1913 at Bolarum (near Hyderabad), Andhra Pradesh, Krishnaji Howlaji Ara did not receive any formal schooling or education in the field of fine arts.

Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar (15 June 1911 – 26 March 1996) was an Indian painter and art educator. He is well known for his paintings that captured the social life of the common people in India. 

Born in 1940 in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh, K. Laxma Goud completed his diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Government School of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad, in 1963.

Born in 1938 in Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, K. M. Adimoolam’s natural aptitude for drawing at an early age made him move to Chennai in 1959. There, under the influence of the sculptor Dhanapal, he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts.

Born in Karnataka, K S Kulkarni studied at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay. He had his first one-man show in 1945, organized by the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society.

Murlidharan completed his studies at the Government College of arts and crafts, Chennai in 1980 where his teachers Alphonso, Munuswamy, R.B. Bhaskaran and Santhanraj influenced him. He spent a year in Delhi there at the Lalit Kala Akademi he worked closely with reputed artists such as J. Swaminathan and Manjit Bawa.

Characterised by bright colours and bold outlines, kalighat painting evolved as a unique genre of indian painting in 19TH-century kolkata (formerly calcutta), in west bengal. From the depiction of gods and other mythological characters, these paintings developed over time to reflect a variety of themes.

Kalighat Pot, Old Bengal Paintings, Patachitra, Dutch Bengal Paintings are unique genre of indian painting in 19TH-century kolkata (formerly calcutta), in west bengal, and other old miscellaneous artworks.

Karl Antao has an extraordinary ability to infuse expression into cold blocks of wood creating mammoth sculptures and complex visual metaphors.

Kat Evans’ vibrant, large-scale paintings are a celebration of the expressive possibilities of color. 

Brian Donnelly (born November 4, 1974), known professionally as Kaws (stylized as KAWS), is an American artist and designer.

Kishor Gundigara is an artist with During the last 46 years as an artist he has created exclusive work in mix medium of Oil, Metal and Canvas. His paintings are create a sense of deep understanding of the universe, power and soul.

Born in 1925 in what is now Faislabad in Pakistan, Krishen Khanna grew up in Lahore, only studying art after he graduated from college at evening classes held at the Mayo School of Art there.

L. N. Tallur (b.1971) received a BFA in Painting from Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (1996), a MFA in Museology from Maharaja Sayyajirao University (1998), and a MA in in Contemporary Fine Art Practice from Leeds Metropolitan University (2002).

Lalu Prasad Shaw was born in Bengal in 1937, and completed his education in fine arts at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Kolkata.

Lancelot Ribeiro was born in Bombay in 1933 to a Catholic family from Goa.  He first came to Britain in 1950 to study accountancy and it was during this stay that his creative interests were kindled.

Born in 1965 in the Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh, India, Laxman Aelay is a highly acclaimed Hyderabad based artist. He is known for his nostalgic paintings that depict the people he grew up amongst, in his ancestral village of Kadirenigudem in modern day Telangana state.

"I have an infatuation with natural beauty and I believe human beings cannot survive by abusing their natural surroundings."

Lakshman Rao Kotturu was born in 1987 in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh. He works with a wide range of materials, including fibreglass, m-seal, knives and nails to create cathartic artworks that explore angst and pain.

Laxman Shreshtha's abstract works are both, sensuous and meditative in their shifts and balances of colour. One can observe a palpable movement from chaos to spiritual peace, in his work.

Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. 

M Sivanesan’s works are a reflection of his personal moods, rather than an attempt at making a profound statement. Fascinated with the human subject, Sivanesan works mainly with figurative compositions.

The Abanindranath Tagore-led revivalist movement had taken hold of Bengal as a reaction to British academic dominance in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries.

Madhav Shripad Satwalekar was born at Lahore on August 13th, 1915. Right from his school days, he was certain that he would become a painter.

Madhuri Bhaduri, a contemporary Indian artist, primarily works in oil to capture the dynamic hues of the sky, earth, and water. Influenced by the Impressionist masters of the 19th century, her landscape paintings emphasize the interplay of light and weather on natural scenes. While she skillfully depicts ephemeral moments, her work also conveys a profound sense of serenity.

Her subjects have a freshness and spontaneity to them; and although her themes always revolve around images that affect her; her compositions are flexible, and all her paintings have a strong sense of design.

Maite Delteil was brought up in the French countryside and educated at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Academie de la Grand Chaumiere and the Académie Julian. Delteil then received a fellowship from the French government and Institut de France to study in Spain and Greece. 

Manas Nasker was born in Kolkata. He is a practicing artist. He experiments with various painting materials in order to better understand the changes in nature and environment in his immediate surroundings. He is now working on a panorama of the surrounding area, in an attempt to convey its romantic essence.

Born in 1872, he was from a village in Surat and went to art school from 1888 to 1896 as a student of Griffiths.

Manish Pushkale (b. 1973) is an autodidact who honed his artistic style and sensibility in the fertile and creative ambience of Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. The intellectual rigour of Bharat Bhavan’s founders in its early decades, its deeply held Indian values and its uncompromising artistic mission to foster these values in art have formed the foundation of Pushkale’s subsequent career as a celebrated abstract artist. 

Manjit Bawa was born in 1941 in Dhuri, British India. His elder brothers encouraged him to pursue art. He studied fine arts at the College of Art, New Delhi between 1958 and 1963, where his professors included Somnath Hore, Rakesh Mehra, Dhanaraj Bhagat and B.C. Sanyal.

Manjunath Kamath tells stories with his images. His narratives, however, are altered and adjusted constantly, adapting fluidly according to the environment they are narrated in, and resulting in a different meaning each time a story is told. As a visual artist, Kamath feels impelled to regularly reinvent his method of storytelling.

A self-taught artist, Manoj Dutta explores traditions of Indian folk art through his works. His admiration for folk artists and their spontaneity is reflected in the immediacy and directness of his work.

Born in 1956. A self taught painter, his work has been featured in several shows in India and abroad, including the Asian Art Show in Japan, the Contemporary Art Show in South Korea, the Contemporary Indian Art show in Holland and the Busan Biennale in South Korea.

Born in 1939 in Gujarat, Manu Parekh completed a Diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, in 1962.

Marc Chagall was a Belarusian-born French artist whose work anticipated the dream-like imagery of Surrealism. Over the course of his career, Chagall developed the poetic, amorphous, and deeply personal visual language evident in paintings like I and the Village (1911).

Meera Mukherjee (1923–1998) was an Indian sculptor and writer, known for bringing modernity to the ancient Bengali sculpting art.

Meetali Singh is a painter and printmaker settled in Baroda. Though her paintings and prints have similarities, her more recent works- paintings begin where the prints end.

Born in 1971 in West Bengal, Mithu Sen obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in painting from Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan, and later, completed a postgraduate program at the Glasgow School of Art in the United Kingdom on the prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust Award for 2000-2001.

Mousumi Biswas was born in Kolkata in 1978. She completed her Bachelor of Visual Art (painting) from the Govt. College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, (2003) and Masters in Fine Arts (painting) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharti, Santiniketan (2005).

Dr. M S Murthy was born in 1960 at Bangalore. He has a Diploma in Fine Arts & Modelling in 1982. He has held 25 solo exhibitions all over India. Has participated in State, National and International exhibitions. In 2003 he won The International Biennial Award from the Iran Academy of Arts, 2006 he won the Karnataka Sahithya Academy Award for his essay collection Desi Nagu.

Mukul Chandra Dey (Bengali: মুকুলচন্দ্র দে) (23 July 1895 – 1 March 1989) was one of five children of Purnashashi Devi and Kula Chandra Dey. 

Born in Indore in 1910, N S Bendre was a contemporary of Nandalal Bose, Ram Kinkar Baij and Benode Behari Mukherjee. His artistic career began at the State School of Art in Indore in 1929.

Born in 1969, N.S. Harsha completed a bachelor’s of fine arts in painting from the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts (CAVA), Mysore, and a master’s of fine arts in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Nandalal Bose (3 December 1882 – 16 April 1966) was one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and a key figure of Contextual Modernism.

Born in 1958 in Mysore, Nataraj Sharma grew up in Egypt, England and Zambia. He studied Applied Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, graduating in 1982.

Navjot was born in 1949 in Meerut and moved to Mumbai in 1969. She studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai, and completed her diploma in 1972.

"An artist remains aware though detached. The artist feels the throbbings of broader impulses around him more acutely. The joys, sorrows, compromises, excellence, pain, loneliness, all inspire the artist. Every experience catalyses creativity and experiences get sublimated."

Nicholas Roerich (October 9, 1874 – December 13, 1947), also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: ÐÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÌÐ¹ Константи́нович Ре́рих), was a Russian painter.

Nidhi Agarwal (b. 1972) is a graduate of the College of Arts, Delhi. She continues to work and live in Delhi. Agarwal’s solo exhibitions have been presented by institutions such as Nature Morte, New Delhi; Artist Center Gallery, Mumbai; and Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi.

Nikhil Biswas' masterfully composed expressionistic drawings and paintings, frequently created with a flurry of strokes, are among his best works from the time period in which they were created. This Untitled piece conveys the power and vibrancy of the space through the hurried strokes and frenetic swirls in brilliant colours of yellow, red, and orange. He enjoys depicting Calcutta's racecourse on canvas, and in this picture, he does so by creating a colourful mosaic of activities that tells a story. Biswas applied paint in a way that gave the painted surface an air of fierceness.

Born in 1961 in Mumbai, India, Nikhil Chaganlal is a self-taught artist who, Says Chaganlal, “I paint portraits of Interiors. The painting, each one a room, is like a private diary disclosing places of old-world charm, with an embrace of intimacy, of happy days almost forgotten.”

Nirode Mazumdar (11 May 1916 – 26 September 1982) was an Indian painter from the first generation of modernists, and a key member of the Calcutta Group. 

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1973, Nusra Latif Qureshi graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the National College of Arts there. From 1996 to 1999 Qureshi served as a visiting artist the miniature painting department at her alma mater,

Old Bengal Paintings are a significant part of India’s rich cultural heritage, reflecting the artistic evolution of the Bengal region over centuries. This style of painting has its roots in the Bengal Renaissance, a period marked by a revival of arts, literature, and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Here’s an overview of what Old Bengal Paintings encompass.

Born in 1932 in Bawal, Haryana, Om Prakash Sharma is a modernist who did post-graduation in Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1966. Sharma is known to have painted several abstract paintings in his career, experimenting with the Neo-Tantric art movement of the 1960s.

Ompal Sansanwal was born in 1964. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata, in 1987 and 1992 respectively.

A strong believer in artistic tradition, Pralhad Anant Dhond always considered the landscape of Ratnagiri in Maharashtra, where he grew up, as the most formative influence on his artistic sensibility.

"My paintings come out of my life experiences. They may be figurative and pictorial, but it’s my imagination that adds the details."

Born in 1930, P.V. Janakiram graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, with a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) in 1953 and a Diploma in Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1952.

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. 

Pakhal Tirumal Reddy known as P T Reddy, was an Indian artist. He was the fifth child born to Ram Reddy and Ramanammachild at Annaram village,

Paresh Maity was born in Tamluk, a suburban town near the Bay of Bengal who has been a prolific painter in a short career span with a unique place in the Indian art scene who was often referred to as the “William Turner of India”.

Paritosh Sen (Bengali: পরিতোষ সেন) (26 September 1918 – 22 October 2008) was a leading Indian artist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh. 

Patachitra or pattachitra is a general term for traditional, cloth-based scroll painting, based in the eastern indian states of odisha, west bengal and parts of bangladesh. Patachitra artform is known for its intricate details as well as mythological narratives and folktales inscribed in it.

Pestonji Bomanji (1851–1938) was one of the most notable portrait painters of the early 20th century, a time when the craft was largely dictated by the training that was disseminated by European institutions in India. Bomanji was enrolled in the J J School of Art under principal John Griffiths. In 1872, Griffiths appointed Bomanji as a draughtsman to copy the Ajanta cave paintings along with a team sent by the School.

Chaturvedi received his BFA and MFA in painting from the College of Arts and Crafts at the University of Lucknow’s Faculty of Fine Arts, and secured a first position in order of merit at both levels. He was later honoured by his alma mater with the Vishisth Pratibha Samman in 2005.

He spent his childhood in Paris where he attended elementary school at the Brothers of the Christian Schools, revealing an incredible talent for drawing as well as singing.

He taught art at the School (now Faculty) of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad from 1963 to his retirement. He continued to work there until his death.

He graduated from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1959. It was during his stay in Varanasi, the holy city of India from 1961 to 1965 that he came into contact with the canon of Tantra (mysticism) that influenced his work during that period. His work had a steady evolution that allows one to trace the numerous influences on it.

The early work of Prabhakar Kolte shows the strong influence of Paul Klee, the Swiss artist and teacher whose childlike figures belie the sophistication of his richly textured surfaces. Indeed, Klee`s influence was felt by many of Kolte`s classmates studying at the J.J. School of Art in the late 1960s.

Prafull Singh completed his M.F.A. from M.S. University, Baroda on 2001. He says each activity of life is a flow of energy and power of nature. I consider my work as part of nature and believe in its natural flow. It's always been a tool to discover myself. He works from Mumbai.

Prafulla Mohanti was born and raised in the village of Nanpur in the east Indian state of Odisha. He still returns every year. The artist cites his upbringing in this place as an influence, saying, 'My painting is rooted in my village culture, which is influenced by yoga and tantra.' After graduating with a degree in architecture from the Sir J J School of Art Mumbai, the artist moved to London.

Prajakta Palav Aher, born in Mumbai in 1979, creates evocative acrylic paintings inspired by the nuances of middle-class Indian life. Drawing from a personal archive of photographic references, her work captures the everyday realities and complexities of her background with striking detail. Her realistic yet artistic compositions depict familiar scenes—plastic flowers adorning doors, stacked newspapers, suitcases atop cupboards, and Lord Ganesha statues commuting on public transport. Aher's art transcends documentation, offering humor and insight into mundane settings. A graduate of Sir J.J. School of Art, she holds a Bachelor’s in Painting (2000) and a Master’s in Portraiture (2003). Aher has exhibited widely, including solo and group shows at esteemed galleries like NGMA Mumbai and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi.

Born in 1980, Prajjwal Choudhury graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Visual Arts in Painting from the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in 2003, and went on to complete his Masters in Visual Arts in Printmaking from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, in 2006.

The artist is intensely aware of the pictorial surface of the canvas. Monochromatic pictures are contrasted with vividly painted areas and abrasions on the canvas form interesting textural motifs.

Prodosh Dasgupta was born in Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) in 1912. He trained in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts and LCC Central School, London, and the Ecole de Grand Chaumier, Paris, after completing his initial studies in sculpture at the Government School of Art and Craft, Chennai, and the Lucknow School of Arts and Crafts.

Prokash Karmakar (1933 – 24^th February 2014) was a pre-eminent Indian artist from Kolkata, West Bengal. His work is in the permanent collection of several museums and galleries throughout India, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and he is the recipient of numerous awards.

In today's day and age, a career in art has to be as well planned as any other. There are numerous courses offered for an art degree in various institutions. Avers R. B. Bhaskaran, principal of the College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, "An art student is trained to meet the challenges of society as in any other career.

Rabin Mondal was born in 1932, in Kolkata, in a poor government official`s family. He graduated with Diploma in Fine Arts from the Vidyasagar Art School.

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali-Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter.

Born in 1910 in Pabna, in present-day Bangladesh, he graduated from College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, in traditional Indian art, oil painting, and Western academism. Abanindranath Tagore, Mukul Dey and other Bengal masters were major influences but Bagchi evolved his own artistic style. In 1951, he joined Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan, as teacher, officiating twice as its principal in subsequent years.

Born in 1979, Oman, Radhika Khimji is a contemporary artist whose works explore materiality and form, shaped by her readings about hybridity and identity in our present-day society worldwide. She graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in 2002 followed by a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from Royal Academy of Art in 2005, and a Master’s Degree in History of Art from University College London in 2007.

Born in 1972 in New Delhi, the artist completed his Bachelor of Arts from Delhi University in 1995. He did specialization in Painting from Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi between 1995 and 2001 apart from Specialization in Illustration and Graphics from Shankar Academy of Art, New Delhi (1996-1997).

Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist. He is considered among the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. 

Dhawan participated in many shows following his return from Belgrade and also taught art at a college in Phagwara, Punjab. However, he left for Paris in 1970 to study at École des Beaux-Arts, eventually settling down in the French capital.

Rajib was born in 1977 in Howrah district of West Bengal. He started painting from a very young age. I grew up as a painter around the city of my life, Kolkata.

Born in 1976, Ram Bali Chauhan studied sculpture at the College of Art, New Delhi, and completed his post graduate degree there in 2003. Chauhan has developed a unique artistic language that provokes a heightened response and participation from the viewer.

One of the pioneers of modern Indian sculpture, Baij created art spontaneously, driven by intuition and energy and disregarding the artistic standards accepted by the institution.

His figurative works from this period, remain familiar with their muted earth-tone color palettes, but are devoid of any recognizable characters; distinctive, emotive facial features; costume elements; or urban and landscape backdrops.

Ramakrishna Behera (b. Orissa, 1977) received his BA in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Rorkee (1996–2000) and worked as a Chemical Engineer with the Indian Oil Corporation Limited.

Born in 1941 in Delhi, Rameshwar Broota graduated in Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Art in 1964. Soon after his graduation, he joined the institution as a lecturer. Since 1967, Broota has served as Head of Department at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi.

Born in Baler, Rajasthan in 1905, Ramgopal Vijayvargiya was allured to art at a very early age. A wandering ascetic introduced him to the basic principles of drawing.

The work of London-based artist Rana Begum distils spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture.

Ranbir Singh Kaleka was born in Patiala, Punjab, in 1953. He studied painting at the College of Art, Punjab University in Chandigarh, and subsequently took on a teaching assignment at the Punjabi University and College of Art in New Delhi. He later obtained his Master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Art in London.

Raqib Shaw, 29, graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Central St Martin's in 2002.  Born in Calcutta and brought up in the cultural wealth of Kashmir, Shaw's ancestry has shaped his richly layered paintings. 

Raqs have exhibited their works in Documenta 11 in 2002 and the Biennales of Venice, Istanbul, Taipei, Liverpool, Sydney and Sao Paulo, amongst others.

Rashid Rana was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1968. He received his Bachelor's degree from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 1992; and in 1994 received his Master's degree from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.

Rasik Durgashanker Raval was born in 1928 in Sourashtra, Gujarat. He was a student of the Sir J.J. School of Art. Spent his childhood in small town of Sabarkanta. He was a recipient of the J.J. School of Art Scholarship in Mural Painting, where he studied and received a diploma in fine art.

Ravinder Reddy's sculpture is heraldic. Many of his sculptures are larger than life heads. Invariably, they look frontally through wide-open eyes, the characteristic attitude of one who proclaims. None of the sculptures looks sideways, or over the shoulder. The one who predicts may draw material from the past, but he has only the future to address.

Rao recalls one career-defining instance from this informal education of hers very clearly. She and her father once saw a blind man begging for alms on the street, and decided to use him as a subject in a painting. When her father saw the final piece he noticed the man had no eyes. Rao answered his questions very simply by saying, "if he can`t see anyway, what is the need for eyes?" Rekha Rao always knew that creating abstract art meant that all the non-essentials had to be removed. She has always followed this path in her career, staying at a distance from the figurative, and never straying far from the symbolic.

Rekha Rodwittiya's work describes complex issues of life and living, of alienation and belonging, of discrimination and acceptance, of accord and discord. It is of paramount importance to this sensitive artist to react pragmatically to socio-political attitudes that surround her. Her work reflects her sensitivity towards socio-political attitudes along with the reflections from her past.

René Magritte, in full René-François-Ghislain Magritte, (born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium—died August 15, 1967, Brussels), Belgian artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters, whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy, and mystery.

Born in 1948 in Bengal, Rini Dhumal studied painting from M.S. University of Baroda. “All my works make a unique and signature statement: they define my ethos, my philosophy, my style, my own metaphors.”

Riya Ghose is a sculptor, she specialises in working with scrap metals and bronze materials. She took her academic art education from Visva-Bharati Santiniketan, located in West Bengal, India.

Riyas Komu was born in 1971 in Kerala, and moved to Mumbai in 1992 to study literature. Dropping out during his final year, Komu eventually obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Art from the Sir J. J. School of Art in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Since his graduation, Komu has been constantly asserting and pushing himself with a strong body of work.

Roy Thomas (1949–2004) was one of the most influential 20th-century Anishinaabe painters in Canada, and was famous for paintings of colourful totemic animals. Like Norval Morrisseau, he became well known when Indigenous art gained mainstream popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Rupchand Kundu is Primarily a painter. He also does installation art, art direction in audio visual and creative events. His Works as Durga Puja Theme Maker are a source of inspiration for budding artist.

Born in Chennai in 1919, S. Dhanapal initially trained in painting at the Government College of Art and Crafts there. In 1941, he joined the institution as a faculty member, and in 1957, he was appointed the Head of its sculpture department. Dhanapal was an influential painter and sculptor in post-Independence India. His sculptures, in particular, served as a visual bridge between traditional Eastern and the modern, ever changing Western aesthetic sensibilities.

The importance of being part of a vibrant artistic community that Cholamandal used to be in the 60s cannot be emphasized enough. It was a meeting place for artists, dramatists, dancers, drop-outs, poets, photographers, architects, anarchists and thinkers.

Sayed Haider Raza (22 February 1922 – 23 July 2016) was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France from 1950 until his death, while maintaining strong ties with India.^[1] He was born in Kakkaiya (District Mandla), Central Provinces, British India, which is now present-day Madhya Pradesh.

Sawlaram Lakshman Haldankar (1882–1968) aka S L Haldankar was a well-known Indian painter. As per Indian custom, Haldankar was married at a very young age to a lady of similar family and background, in a match arranged by their parents. The marriage was happy and conventional and was blessed with seven children, being four sons and three daughters. 

S. Nandagopal (1946 – 14 April 2017) was an Indian sculptor and painter, known for his sculptures in metal. He was one of the last members of the Madras Art Movement which pioneered modernism in art in south India and the son of K. C. S. Paniker, the founder of the movement as well as the Cholamandal Artists' Village.

Bakre was born in Baroda, and was one of the founders of the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, the pioneers of modern art in India. In 1951, he went to Britain, where he soon gave up sculpture and concentrated on painting. He had a one-man exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute (1951), another at Gallery One (1959), and four at the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery (1969–1975).[4]

Sailoz Mookherjea (1906–1960) was an Indian painter. He is one of the early modernists who showed a flair for simplification of forms, vigorous lines and dynamic movement.

He grew up in what is now Bangladesh, British India. He has lived in France for the last five decades, while maintaining strong ties with India, where he regularly exhibits his works. He is married to French painter Maite Delteil. His extended family includes several eminent artists: his daughter, Maya Burman also lives and works in France; his niece, Jayasri Burman was inspired by him and is a notable artist in her own right; as is his niece's husband, Paresh Maity. He has had several exhibitions of his work in India, and elsewhere, and won several prizes.

Dalí's artistic repertoire included painting, graphic arts, film, sculpture, design and photography, at times in collaboration with other artists. He also wrote fiction, poetry, autobiography, essays and criticism. Major themes in his work include dreams, the subconscious, sexuality, religion, science and his closest personal relationships.

He has been painting almost for three decades now. He started out as a neo-realist and gradually moved into semi-abstract figurative themes. His favourite medium is oil on canvas, but he also does work in acrylic and mixed media.

Sanat Kar is an Indian Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1935. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Art Pilgrim have featured Sanat Kar's work in the past.

Sanatan Dinda (born 5 February 1971) is an Indian visual artist from Kolkata India.

Sanjay Bhattcahrya’s works, both in oil paints and water colours are a unique embodiment of the soul of the city of Kolkata. Taking their subject matter from the middle class people of Kolkata and their conditions of living, his works offer a poignant portrait of the lived realities of urban existence in India.

Sanuj Birla is a self taught Pop-Art artist straight from the heart of New Delhi, India.

Sarbari Roy Chowdhury (21 January 1933 – 21 February 2012), was an Indian artist.  Chowdhury was born in Ulpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) into a Zamindari family, and graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, in 1956.

Satish Gujral (25 December 1925 – 26 March 2020) was an Indian painter, sculptor, muralist and writer of the post-independent era. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, in 1999. 

Satish Chandra Sinha was born in Calcutta in 1893 and studied under Percy Brown and J.P. Gangooly at the Government College of Art, of which he later became principal.  Sinha followed the Western academic approach to art, placing an emphasis on perspective and realism in his work. 

Schandra Singh is a first generation American, born in Suffern, NY to immigrant parents. She is the daughter of Anand Singh, an Indian Maharaja and Gisa Singh an Austrian model. She is the sister of actress Sabine Singh. Schandra Singh received a MFA from Yale in 2006 and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1999.

Senaka Senanayake is a contemporary Sri Lankan painter. His work, characterized by its brilliantly colored scenes of lush, overlapping jungle fauna and vegetation, has earned him a reputation as one of Sri Lanka's most appreciated artists.

Shahabuddin Ahmed (born 11 September 1950) is a Bangladeshi painter. He was awarded the Chevalier De L'ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres (Knight in the Order of Fine Arts and Humanities) by the Ministry of Cultural Affair and Communication of France in 2014. He was the recipient of Independence Day Award by the Government of Bangladesh in 2000. 

Shail Choyal was born in November 9, 1945. Born in Kota, Choyal studied painting at Udaipur University, and followed this with a Diploma from Jaipur School of Art.

Born in 1970 in Delhi, Shampa Sircar Das is a renowned artist known for her meditative and spiritually infused artworks. Her vibrant canvases, inspired by India’s cultural heritage and philosophy, reflect cosmic energies, spirituality, and nature. A graduate in Fine Arts from the College of Art, Delhi (1993), and Jamia Millia Islamia (1995), she has held over 10 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 250 group shows globally. Shampa's works combine Vedic and Buddhist symbolism with influences from Tibetan sacred art, Indian epics, and Bengali folktales. Her accolades include the Raja Ravi Varma Samman (2018) and Bharat Nirman Award (2017).

Shamshad Hussain did his Post Graduation from Royal College of Art, London (1979-80). He is the recipient of the National Award (1983), Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi.

Shanti Dave is an Indian painter and sculptor, considered by many as one of the major Indian artists of the twentieth century. He is a former member of the Lalit Kala Akademi and the Sahitya Kala Parishad. 

Shiavax Dhanjibhoy Chavda (11 December 1914 – 18 August 1990) was an Indian painter, illustrator and muralist. Known for his dynamic line drawings and paintings, Chavda's work mainly showcased the dancers and musicians from India and Southeast Asia.

Shibu spent two years, between 1996 - '97 at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and his recent "Missing" series of paintings is representative of the change that occurred duing the time.

Shipra Bhattacharya is an Indian artist from Kolkata, known for her figurative paintings of women in domestic, urban, and natural environments. Her work has been exhibited in India and internationally.

Shobha Broota (born 1943, New Delhi) trained as a classical Indian vocalist before studying fine art, and it is no wonder that her art “aspires to the condition of music”, to borrow the words of Victorian essayist Walter Pater.

Shovin Bhattacharjee is an accomplished contemporary artist. He has been working in the field of art and design for the last two decades with a group of well experienced technical experts. He has a fair amount of understanding of design application and intuitive grasp of spatial development. Through his, work Shovin has created a diverse creative narrative. Most of his works are contained with strong thematic appropriation connecting the impact of modern technology and its application in our life.

Shuvaprasanna Bhattacharjee is an Indian artist, born in Kolkata in 1947. He graduated from the Indian College of Arts in 1969. He was an active member of the Calcutta Painters group. He is married to artist Shipra Bhattacharya. Subhaprasanna was the student of the famous painter Debdoot Sheet.

Born in Assam, artist Shyam Kanu Borthakur drawings, paintings & scupltures mainly depict animal forms- bulls, wild boars, horses, elephants, & savage rams. He has had several solo & group shows at Jehangir Art gallery, Mumbai, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata & many more

Shyamal Dutta Ray's body of work constitutes a major turning point in the history of the Bengal school of art. Ray is credited with adding depth and intensity to the medium of watercolours, at a time when the Bengal school of Art traditionally used light and watery colours. His melancholic and pensive works reflect the contradictions of life around him.

Sohan Jakhar is a contemporary Indian painter. His paintings frequently feature street market scenes in opposition to vivid floral patterns since the artist enjoys the energy of street bazaars.

Sohan Qadri (born 2 November 1932, in Punjab, India – died 2 March 2011, in Toronto, Canada) was a yogi, poet and a painter from India who lived in Copenhagen for 30 years. 

Somnath Hore (1921-2006) was an Indian sculptor and printmaker. His sketches, sculptures and prints were a reaction to major historical crises and events of 20th century Bengal

Born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Sonia Mehra Chawla received her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts in 2001, and Masters Degree in Fine Arts in 2004 from College of Art, New Delhi, India. 

Born in 1964 in New Delhi, Subba Ghosh received his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the College of Art there in 1984.

Subodh Gupta (born 1964) is an Indian contemporary artist based in New Delhi. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. 

Subrata graduated in 1976 from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and has trained under Bikas Bhattacharya. He has participated in over 50 Group shows throughout the country and in several art camps. His prominent solo exhibitions have been at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi in 1992; Lalit Kala Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata in 2005; and Chitramayee State Gallery of Fine Arts, Hyderabad in 2006. Subrata primarily works with acrylic and oils on canvas and is particularly well known for his treatment of light and shadow, and his dreamlike surrealistic imagery. The artist presently works and lives in Kolkata.

Subrata Gangopadhyay was born in 1959 in Calcutta, India. He Graduated from Govt. College of Art & Crafts, Calcutta in 1980 with First-class-first Diploma in Paintings (Life-Nature and Murals).

Subrata Paul (b.1972) completed his DVA in Sculpture from AFA, Kolkata in 1988. He is the recipient of Best Sculpture Award in 71’st All India Exhibition by Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, Annual Exhibition Award, Certificate of Merit from Govt. of West Bengal and Certificate of Merit from AFA. He has participated in over a hundred group exhibitions in India and overseas, including solo shows at Academy of Fine Arts and Jaipur Art Feasta by Kalakendra. He has also partaken in several workshops in all over India. His works are in collection with numerous private and institutional art collectors in India and Overseas Such as Ministry of Defense, Govt of India and Birla Academy of Art &Culture. Presently, he is a member of Calcutta Sculptors.

He has exhibited widely in India and more recently he has become increasingly visible on the international stage as an important voice in contemporary art.

Sudhanshu Sutar is from the eastern Indian state of Orissa. In the words of eminent poet Kathleen Laine “The ‘real’ Orissa is what the imagination has created in her heritage of music, painting, architecture, poetry, all the crafts and arts together with her incomparable continuity in thought, and expression.”

Sudhir Patwardha is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising radiologist.

Sudip Banerjee was born in 1954, graduated from the Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship Exhibition has participated in many group shows and art camps in India, U.K, France, USA and Malaysia. Collection in major collectors in India and private collection in U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Hongkong, Sweden, Singapore, Bangladesh and USA FOUNDER “Shefalika Art Gallery” first International suburban art gallery in West Bengal.
Joint Secretary Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata
Member of Calcutta Painters group, A legend art organization of India.

Born in 1936 in Bengal. Suhas Roy graduated in painting in 1958 from the Indian College of Arts and Draftsmanship, Kolkata . From 1971 - 1973 he was the principle of Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship. Subsequently he became a lecturer in painting at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan

Suhasini Kejriwal lives and works in Kolkata. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Parsons School of Design in New York and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Goldsmiths College, London.

Born in 1979 in Baroda, Gujarat, India, Sujith completed an MFA from the Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts, Performing Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad in 2007, and a BFA from the College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, University of Calicut in 2005. He also has a diploma as a civil draughtsman.

Suman Roy (1968 – 2012) was born in Kolkata and studied Art at Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan. The son of legendary painter Suhas Roy, he worked to evolve his own distinct style.

One of India’s important post-modernist painters, Sunil Das rose to prominence with his drawing of horses. “I must have done 7000 horses between 1950 to 60,” he says. “In 1962, I went to Spain, where I was fascinated by the bull fights.”

About 60 years of age, he can look back at his nine to ten phases of paintings, all of them marked by supreme skill and a sense of integrity. An indefatigable painter, Sunil Das jumped from one style to another easily.

Sunil Gawde (born 1960, Mumbai) trained as a painter but his practice has evolved in later decades to include sculptures and kinetic installations.

Born in Purulia in West Bengal, Sunil Madhav Sen was a self-taught artist. Though he learned drawing as a child from a local teacher, he studied law and the liberal arts at Calcutta University and worked for the government. He pursued his passion for art privately alongside his legal practise, visiting the studios of Abanindranath Tagore, Atul Bose, J. P. Gangooly, and Satish Sinha. He also apprenticed for two years under Hemendranath Mazumdar, honing his skills in portrait painting.

Sunil was born in Maharashtra, India. He did BFA foundation from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai in 1986 and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai in 1989.

Suraj Kumar Kashi was born in 1976 in Jamui, Bihar.

Surendran Nair (born 1956) is an Indian artist who works with Watercolour

suryakant lokhande is an artist born in 1969.

SUSHIL CHANDRA SEN IS REMEMBERED FOR HIS ACADEMIC-REALIST LANDSCAPES MADE PRIMARILY IN WATERCOLOUR BUT ALSO IN OIL.

Born in 1953 in West Bengal. Swapan Polley graduated from the Indian College of Arts and Draftmanship (in Fine Arts) from the Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in the year 1977.

He did a special course under eminent artist Prakash Karmakar in 1990. Cave paintings of Ajanta in particular and Indian Arts in general have inspired him immensly.

T. V. Santhosh (born 1968 in Kerala) is an Indian artist based in Mumbai. He obtained his graduate degree in painting from Santiniketan and master's degree in Sculpture from M.S. University, Baroda. 

Thota Vaikuntam (born 1942) is an Indian painter. His paintings capture simple lifestyle of villagers like the paddy fields, toddy pots on shoulders of men, the household chores, temple rituals etc.

Ta Byrne an exciting Thai painter whose works have been exhibited in Thailand and the UK.

Tapan Ghosh is an artist from Kolkata. Born in 1943, He completed his graduation from the Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata with a First Class. He has also studied printmaking at Atelier 17 in Paris under the guidance of S. W. Hayter and Krishna Reddy. Tapan Ghosh`s works capture the playfulness of formal elements, with line and colour chasing each other, disappearing and showing up unexpectedly to take the viewer by surprise. He doesnt only simply capture descriptions of the tangible world but enjoys the inventiveness of form making through playful deliberations, exploring the layering process, using instinctive control, often guided by the elements themselves.

Thomas Daniell RA (1749 – 19 March 1840) was an English landscape painter.

Thukral and Tagra are an artist duo composed of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra.

Tom Vattakuzhy was born into a rural agricultural family at Kalloorkad, showed an artistic inclination at an early phase of his schooling. He completed a diploma course in art at a local art school at Muvattupuzha and then attended art lessons at a couple of art schools before he joined Kerala Kalapeetom[4] in Ernakulam from where he learned about the possibilities of higher education in art.

Tushar Joag (b. 1966, Mumbai) received his Bachelor??s degree from the Sir J.J. School of Arts,

Tyeb Mehta (26 July 1925 – 2 July 2009) was an Indian painter, sculptor and film maker.

U. Bhaskar Rao (b. 1947) has participated in prestigious group shows and national.

Vasudeo S. Gaitonde(1924 10 August 2001), also known as V. S. Gaitonde.

Vasundhara Tewari Broota (born 1955) is an Indian painter who does figurative paintings based on the perception of a woman and the psycho-political existence of the female body, traditional landscapes, still life with exquisite meaning.

Born in 1933 in Lyallpur, India. Nayar and his family shifted to New Delhi during the partition.

Velu Viswanadhan born in 1940. Diploma-holder from the Government College of Arts and Crafts,

Vijender Sharma was born in Delhi in 1962, and started his career by doing book covers and paintings

Vinod Sharma was born in 1953. He did his Bachelors of Fine Arts from College of Arts.

Viraj Naik completed his BFA from Goa college of Art, Panjim.

Born in 1942 in Junagadh, Gujarat, Vrindavan Solanki is a renowned Indian artist celebrated internationally for his evocative depictions of village life. He holds a Diploma in Painting and Post Diploma in Graphics from M.S. University, Baroda. Solanki’s art masterfully uses light and shadow to portray the essence of Gujarat’s men and women in traditional attire, focusing on their clothing while omitting facial details for a surreal effect. A former visiting faculty at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Solanki has showcased his work in prestigious exhibitions worldwide. He currently resides and works in Ahmedabad.

Walter Langhammer: An Austrian painter and art teacher.

Yashika Sugandh, born in Kolkata, India, is an artist who works primarily in oil and acrylic. 

Yashwant Deshmukh is an Indian Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1963.

Kusama has been open about her mental health and has resided since the 1970s

Yusuf Arakkal (1945 – 2016) was an Indian artist. Arakkal was born in Chavakkad, Kerala. 

Zarina Hashmi (Rashid; 16 July 1937 – 25 April 2020), known professionally as Zarina, was an Indian American artist and printmaker based in New York City. Her work spans drawing, printmaking, and sculpture.