Month: January 2026

(1915–2011) Maqbool Fida Husain was one of the country’s most well known modernists. He worked as a signboard painter for films, a carpenter for

(1939) Born in Faridpur (now in Bangladesh), Jogen Chowdhury studied at the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata, followed by a stint at

(1934–2003) Bhupen Khakhar is a widely recognised name among Indian artists — not only for his depiction of homosexual desire on his canvases, or

(1947) Amitava Das graduated from College of Art in Delhi in 1972. Two years later, together with artists Meena Dhanda, Mona Rai, Rajni Mehta,

(1929–1997) Gulam Rasool Santosh was born in Kashmir. In 1950, after five years of practising commercial art to support his family, he joined the

(1941–2008) Born in Dhuri, Punjab, Manjit Bawa was one of India’s most renowned artists. His landscapes are bold colour blocks that depict serene bucolic

(1956) Born in 1956, Jayashree Chakravarty is a mixed media artist whose works pose questions on urbanism and depleting natural resources. As a child

(1936-2016) Suhas Roy studied art at the Indian College of Arts and Draughtsmanship, Calcutta (Kolkata). The Dhaka-born artist was a contemporary of Dipak Banerjee

(1925) Krishen Khanna, who celebrated his 100th birthday in July 2025, is one of the early members of the Progressive Artists’ Group, which formed

Born in Maharashtra’s Nagaon, a beach town off the Konkan coast, Prabhakar Barwe belonged to a family of art practitioners: his grand uncle