Category: Artists

  • A. Ramachandran

    A. Ramachandran

    A.Ramachandran, is an Indian painter, born in 1935 in Attingal, Kerala. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi and in 2005, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honour, for outstanding service to the nation. In 1957, he obtained his master’s degree in Malayalam literature, but art…

  • Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998)

    Meera Mukherjee (1923-1998)

    She was an Indian artist, sculpture, and writer. She is known for bringing modernity and freshness to ancient Bengali sculpting art. Her sculptures were heavily influenced by the Dhokra method of Bastar Chhattisgarh. She was awarded Padma Shri in 1992 by the Government of India. She was born in Kolkata in 1923. At age 14,…

  • Paresh Maity

    Paresh Maity

    Paresh Maity was born in Tamluk, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and graduated at the top of his class with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Delhi College of Arts. Paresh Maity has 81 Solo Exhibitions in forty years…

  • Jamini Roy a torchbearer of Folk-art on the world stage

    Jamini Roy a torchbearer of Folk-art on the world stage

    A long time ago Indian fine art got the blend of eastern culture. I am not saying that Indian art was not eastern but in the middle of the invasion of India by the British East India Company, art got influenced- by influence I mean that Indian fine artists started getting a load of western…

  • Arpana Caur

    Arpana Caur

    Arpana Caur  was born in 1954, in Delhi. She comes from a Sikh family who fled the Pakistani West Punjab to the Republic of India in 1947 during the confusion over the partition of British India. Her mother Ajit Kaur (born in 1934), is a writer who writes in Panjabi. She has not had her…

  • Somnath Hore (1921-2006)

    Somnath Hore (1921-2006)

    Born in 1921 in Chittagong, Somnath Hore was an Indian sculptor & printmaker. Most of his works are the recreation of the incidents that happened in his life such as the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Tebhaga movement. Somnath Hore lost his father in his early childhood and was schooled by his uncle. His…

  • Ramkinkar Baij (25 May 1906 – 02 August 1980)

    Ramkinkar Baij (25 May 1906 – 02 August 1980)

    Ramkinkar Baij was one of the pioneers of modern Indian sculpture and a very important figure of Contextual Modernism.  He is considered as “Father of Modern Indian Sculpture”. He began his journey in art at a very young age. He use to copy local idol makers; sketching, making idols, and drawings were some of the…

  • Neeraj Goswami

    Neeraj Goswami

    Born in Patna in 1964, Neeraj completed his education at the Delhi School of Art. He earned both a Bachelor’s and Masters degree and has been feted by the Government for his significant contribution to art. Neeraj received the Bharat Bhavan Award at the Second Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art in the year 1988. The…

  • Jangarh Singh Shyam

    Jangarh Singh Shyam

    Jangarh was born into a Pardhan Gond family in the village of Patangarh, Mandla district, (Dindori District), Eastern Madhya Pradesh. He grew up in extreme poverty which forced him to quit school and try his hand at farming. He grazed buffaloes and sold milk in a nearby town. At the age of sixteen, he married…

  • Anjolie Ela Menon

    Anjolie Ela Menon

    Anjolie Ela Menon was born on 17 July 1940, in Burnpur, Bengal [now in West Bengal], India and is of mixed Bengali and American parentage.  She went to Lawrence School, Lovedale in the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu. By the age of 15, when she left school, she had already sold a few paintings. Thereafter, she…