SRIMATI PRIYADARSHINI LAL, artist, poet, art critic, curator and author, has held over a dozen solo exhibitions internationally and is the author of three acclaimed books of poetry: The Window (Writers Workshop, 1986), Six Poems and The Warriors: I Guerrieri (London, 2006).
Srimati was felicitated at a Retrospecti...
Maqbool Fida Husain commonly known as MF, was an eminent painter of Indian origin, although a Qatari national at the time of his death. He has been widely regarded as the "Picasso of India" and has influenced a whole generation of artists in the country.
Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1...
Edward Ben Avram (born 1941) is an artist who was born in Bombay, India and immigrated to Israel as a teenager. He graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1965 and continues to make his home in Jerusalem.
Most of Ben Avram’s oil paintings and watercolors portray Israeli cities, religious festival...
Mahirwan Mamtani is painter, graphic and multimedia artist.
Mahirwan Mamtani
Mamtani grew up in India, studied there and moved 1966 to Germany, where he had been awarded a scholarship by DAAD to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Since that time he lives and works in and around Munich.
Already at the b...
Prafulla Dahanukar (1934) is an award-winning Indian painter. She was born in Goa and raised in Mumbai. She completed 50 years of her career as a painter in 2007.
Prafulla studied fine art at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai and graduated with a Gold Medal in 1955. The Government of France awarded her a schola...
Jitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai (Bombay). He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996.
Kallat's work incorporates varied media including painting, large-scale sculpture insta...
Amrita Sher-Gil, was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important woman painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India.
In 1934, whi...
Abhay Kumar is an Indian author, poet, artist and diplomat. His book River Valley to Silicon Valley tries to draw the portrait of a modern young Indian. His work in the field of Gov2.0 & digital diplomacy, philosophical poetry, planetary scale of thinking in his art works and writings on Global democracy envision a sec...
Anil Karanjai was an accomplished Indian artist. Born in East Bengal, he was educated in Benaras, where his family settled subsequent to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. As a small child he had spent long hours playing with clay to make toys and arrows. He also began very early to draw animals and plan...
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. His paintings are considered to be among the best examples of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art.