Born in 1932 in Bawal, Haryana, Om Prakash Sharma is a modernist painter. He completed his Masters in Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1966. Sharma is known for his abstract paintings having experimented with the Neo-Tantric art movement of the 1960s. Sharma has participated in several solo exhibitions across India. He received a national award…
Born in 1934 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, Jyoti Bhatt studied painting and printmaking at M. S. University in Baroda and then went on to study further at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Academia di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy, and the Pratt Institute in New York. His work is in numerous international collections, including the Museum…
Born in Bengal, in 1924, ARUP DAS, graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts Calcutta, in the 1940s. In the 1960s, he became a member of All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi. Das was a figurative painter and muralist. had several shows in India and abroad. He won the national…
T. Vaikuntam was born in Andhra Pradesh in 1942. He completed a Diploma in Painting at the College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad in 1970, followed by another Painting and Printmaking degree from the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, in 1972. It was only, however, later that he developed his own distinct style under the guidance…
Tutu Patnaik breathes life into stone that can only be called magnificent. A random rock may just be another piece to many but not Tutu Patnaik. Having completed his Bachelors of Fine Art from Banaras University, Patnaik did his Masters from Delhi College of Art. He has been a part of large symposiums in many countries…
Born in Madhubani in Bihar, Sachindra Nath Jha studied at the College of Arts at Patna. His works are based on the river Ganga and all that happens around the river, that includes the flowers, pujas and ceremonies. He loves to use vibrant colours like green, blue, violet and red. Though he started off as a…
Born in 1978, in Jharkhand, Rajesh Ram studied at the Patna School of Art in 2002, and in 2007. He participated in an Art Appreciation Course at the National Museum in New Delhi. An award winner at the 17th All India Art Contest, Nagpur, the artist has held several solo exhibitions across India. The artist lives…
Krishen Khanna grew up in pre-partition Lahore, before moving to England, to study at the Imperial Service College on a scholarship. Thereafter he returned to India and became a part of the Progressive Artist Group (PAG) with whom he would hold his first exhibition in 1949. In 1962 was awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship and was Artist-in-Residence…
Born in Lahore in British India, Dhanraj Bhagat acquired a Diploma in sculpture from the city’s Mayo College of Art. Bhagat began working with clay before finding true inspiration in wood. His early wood sculptures bore liquid, stream-like forms of the sensual feminine, with smooth, elongated lines. Post partition, his started acquiring rough edges and un-smoothed…
