Premodern artists

• Abanindranath Tagore
  Abanindranath Tagore
  Abanindranath Tagore was the principal artist of the Bengal school and the first major exponent of swadeshi values in Indian art. He was also a noted writer, particularly for children...
  
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• Amrita Sher-Gil
  Amrita Sher-Gil
  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.-Early...
  
   (1913–1941)
• Gopal Rao
  Gopal Rao
  Gopala Rao or Gopal Rao is one of the Indian names.* Nandikolla Gopala Rao, a renowned Indian artist.* Gopal Rao Ekbote, past Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court.* Rao Gopal Rao, a famous Indian actor....
  
   (1880–1945)
• Jamini Roy
  Jamini Roy
  -Early life:Jamini Roy was born in 1887 into a middle-class family of land-owners in a village called Beliatore in the District of Bankura in Bengal .When he was sixteen he was sent to study at the Government School of Art in Calcutta...
  
   (1887–1972)
• Kalipada Ghoshal (1900- )
• Manishi Dey
  Manishi Dey
  Manishi Dey was an Indian painter of the Bengal school of art. He was born in Dhaka on 22. September 1909 and died 1966 in Kolkata. He was the younger brother of Mukul Dey, a pioneering Indian teacher and engraver....
  
   (1909–1966)
• Mukul Chandra Dey (1895–1989)
• Norman Douglas Hutchinson
  Norman Douglas Hutchinson
  Norman Douglas Hutchinson was a British Royal painter, noted for his 1988 painting of Queen Elizabeth II.Hutchinson was born in Calcutta, India in 1932, the illegitimate son of Earl Eric Douglas, of Scottish Marquess of Queensberry lineage, and an Anglo-Indian maid, Florence. He grew up in an...
  
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• Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
   (1861-1941)
• Raja Ravi Varma
  Raja Ravi Varma
  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...
  
   (1848–1906)
• S G Thakur Singh
  S G Thakur Singh
  S.G. Thakur Singh is an Indian artist who painted in oils, pastels and water color-Childhood:He was born in the tiny farm village of Verka, four miles Northeast of Amritsar, Punjab, India...
  
   (1899–1976)
• Sansar Chand (1900–1995)

Modern artists

• Akbar Padamsee
  Akbar Padamsee
  Akbar Padamsee is a contemporary Indian artist.He received his diploma from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, in 1951...
  
  
• Anil Karanjai
  Anil Karanjai
  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...
  
  
• Anil Kumar Dutta
  Anil Kumar Dutta
  Anil Kumar Dutta was an Indian artist and educator.He was the founder-editor of Shilpa O Sahitya, a literary magazine and founder-principal of the Academy of Creative Art.- Early life and education :Anil Kumar Dutta was born in Sahanagar district of south Kolkata to a family hailing...
  
  
• Anjolie Ela Menon
  Anjolie Ela Menon
  Anjolie Ela Menon is one of India's leading contemporary female artists. Her paintings are in several major collections. Most recently , a major work "Yatra" was acquired by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California. Her preferred medium is oil on masonite, though she has also worked in...
  
  
• Atul Dodiya
  Atul Dodiya
  Atul Dodiya is an Indian artist.Atul began exhibiting and selling his work in the early 1980s following his graduation from Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree...
  
  
• B. Prabha
  B. Prabha
  B. Prabha was a major Indian artist who worked mainly in oil, in an instantly recognizable style. She is best known for graceful elongated figures of pensive rural women, with each canvas in a single dominant color...
  
  
• Baaraan Ijlal
• Badri Narayan
  Badri Narayan
  Badri Narayan is an eminent Indian artist, illustrator, author and story-teller.He started painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954...
  
  
• Baiju Parthan
  Baiju Parthan
  Baiju Parthan, a painter, born in 1956 in Kerala, India is known as a pioneer of intermedia art in India. While elaborating the workings of a mysterious inner universe through his paintings, Parthan has combined his painterly concerns with his explorations of cyberspace to produce a series of...
  
  
• Bharti Kher
  Bharti Kher
  Bharti Kher is one of India’s best-known contemporary artists. Her work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation, often incorporating bindis — the popular forehead decoration worn by women in India — which in Kher’s hands become an epidermal filter, transforming objects and dissolving the...
  
  
• Bhupat Dudi
• Charanjit Singh Dhiman
• Chiman Dangi
• Cheenu Pillai
  Cheenu Pillai
  Cheenu Pillai is a self taught artists from chennai, India who blends European expressionism with dravidian themes.-Career:Cheenu Pillai was born in 1971 in a village in Tanjore district. He spent his school days in his village and then in Tanjore. Cheenu took to painting at very early age, thanks...
  
  
• Devajyoti Ray
  Devajyoti Ray
  Devajyoti Ray is an Indian painter and installation artist whose works attained significance in the post-liberalization phase of Indian economy. His works have been exhibited internationally and have been acquired by many art academies...
  
  
• Dileep Singh Chauhan
• Gopi Artist
• Gieve Patel
  Gieve Patel
  Gieve Patel is a poet, playwright and artist, as well as a practicing doctor.-Early life and education:Gieve Patel was born in 1940 in Mumbai. He was educated at St Xavier's High School and Grant Medical College...
  
  
• Gogi Saroj Pal
  Gogi Saroj Pal
  Gogi Saroj Pal is an eminent Indian artist. She works in many media, including gouache, oil, ceramic and weaving. Her works usually have women as their subject, and many of her paintings have a fantastical element that still comments on the female condition...
  
  
• Jahar Dasgupta
  Jahar Dasgupta
  Jahar Dasgupta, is senior contemporary painter from India.-Biography:Jahar Dasgupta was born in Jamshedpur in the year 1942. He was admitted to Kalabhavan, Santiniketan in 1959 and took his primary lessons under legendary mentors like Nand Lal Bose, Ramkinkar Baiz and Benode Behari Mukherjee...
  
  
• Jatin Das
• Jayanth Manda
  Jayanth Manda
  Jayanth Manda is a contemporary Indian artist.- Biography :After preliminary practice in the art of drawing and painting at local schools, he joined Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai and obtained Diploma in Painting in the year 1964.Studied Mural techniques" at faculty of Fine Arts, M. S...
  
  
• Javed Alam Shamsi
• Jitish Kallat
  Jitish Kallat
  Jitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai . He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996....
  
  
• Jogen Chowdhury
  Jogen Chowdhury
  Jogen Chowdhury is an eminent Indian painter and considered an important painter of 21st century India. He lives and works in Santiniketan. He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and subsequently at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris in the year 1967. He has...
  
  
• John Wilkins
  John Wilkins (Indian artist)
  John Wilkins , was an Indian artist was born on June 20, 1927 at Kolar Gold Fields.-Biography:John Wilkins was one of the leading painters from India which include Tyeb Mehta, S.H. Raza, M.F...
  
  
• Jyoti Basu
  Jyoti Basu
  Jyoti Basu was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him the longest-serving Chief Minister of any Indian state. Basu was a member of the CPI Politburo from the time of the...
  
  
• K.G. Subramanyan
  K.G. Subramanyan
  K.G. Subramanyan is a contemporary Indian painter. One of most revered of living painters in India, often drawing comparison with Tyeb Mehta and M.F. Husain, he is celebrated as much for his wide-ranging scholarship as for his visual satires.-Life:...
  
  
• Kaushik Gupta
• Krishnakumar K. P.
• Kurchi Dasgupta
  Kurchi Dasgupta
  Kurchi Dasgupta is an Indian painter, writer and translator. She currently lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, where, in April 2008, she was witness to the abolition of the monarchy which had reigned in Nepal for 240 years and the transformation of Nepal into a federal democratic state.-Background:Dasgupta...
  
  
• M. D. Parashar
  M. D. Parashar
  M. D. Parashar is an Indian wildlife photographer and painter.Parashar was born and brought up in Ranthambhore, a part of Sawai Madhopur district in state of Rajasthan in western India. Parashar is a graduate of Rajasthan School of Art .Parashar is often considered Ranthambhore's first son...
  
  
• M.F. Husain
• Nek Chand
  Nek Chand
  Nek Chand Saini is an Indian self-taught artist, famous for building the Rock Garden of Chandigarh, an eighteen acre sculpture garden in the city of Chandigarh, India....
  
  

• Narayanan Ramachandran
• Paramjit Singh
  Paramjit Singh
  Paramjit Singh may refer to:* Paramjit Singh * Paramjit Singh * Paramjit Singh...
  
  
• Paresh Maity
  Paresh Maity
  Paresh Maity is an Indian painter. He is a prolific painter in a short career span.-Early life:Paresh Maity was born in Tamluk, Purba Medinipur...
  
  
• Prakash Ghadge
• Pranava Prakash
  Pranava Prakash
  Pranava Prakash is an Indian artist working in neopop style. Pranava started " tuchchart " style with a group of Delhi artists, starting with his Tuchchart show in Delhi...
  
  
• Ram Chandra Shukla
  Ram Chandra Shukla
  Ram Chandra Shukla is an Indian painter and art critic.-Early life:Shukla was born in a small village called Shukulpura of district Basti, Uttar Pradesh in a farmer's family...
  
  
• Ram Kumar
  Ram Kumar
  Ram Kumar is a contemporary Indian artist who has been described as one of India's foremost abstract painters. Educated as an economist with an M.A. from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Ram Kumar took classes at the Sharda Ukil School of Art, and then went to Paris and studied further there under...
  
  
• Raqs Media Collective
  Raqs Media Collective
  Raqs Media Collective is a group of three media practitioners - Jeebesh Bagchi , Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta - based in New Delhi...
  
  
• Ratnadeep Adivrekar
  Ratnadeep Adivrekar
  Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrerkar is a contemporary artist from India. He has had several solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions like Pictures of Asia, Larasati, Singapore, ‘Indian contemporary art’, Chelsea Art College, U.K., Ao~rta Project, BBK Kunst Forum, Düsseldorf and...
  
  
• Ravi Shekhar
• Reena Saini Kallat
  Reena Saini Kallat
  Reena Saini Kallat is an artist based in Mumbai, India.Kallat was born in Delhi. She works in photography, sculpture, installation and painting...
  
  
• S. Jithesh
  S. Jithesh
  S. Jithesh is the former Vice-Chairman of Kerala Cartoon Academy. Caricaturist and Cartoon Critic. He belongs to the genre of the odd and rare species of Performing Cartoonists. He has initiated and popularised 'Super-Speedy Cartooning' through his On the spot Cartoon Stage Shows-Varayarangu...
  
  
• S.H. Raza
  S.H. Raza
  Syed Haider Raza Alias S.H. Raza is an eminent Indian artist who has lived and worked in France since 1950, but maintains strong ties with India....
  
  
• Saba Hasan
• Saif Uddin
  Saif Uddin
  Saif Uddin is a contemporary Indian artist specializing in ancient and, notably, modern Mughal paintings, Kota school, Jaipur school and Bundi school painting styles as well as custom Indian Jewellery.-Life:...
  
  
• Satish Gujral
  Satish Gujral
  Satish Gujral is an Indian painter, sculptor, muralist, graphic designer and architect. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1999....
  
  
• Sekar Ayyanthole
  Sekar Ayyanthole
  Sekar Ayyanthole is a painter, art teacher and former president of Kerala Chithrakala Parishath-Education:Diploma in drawing and painting GOI Thrissur 1975.-Employment:...
  
  
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• K.A.Soman
• Somenath Maity
  Somenath Maity
  Somnath Maity is an Indian artist, known for his oil paintings of urban landscapes.-Biography:Born 1960 at Midnapore, West Bengal. Somenath studied at the College of Visual Art under the guidance of Shuvaprasanna. He had done a diploma in Fine Arts from the Indian College of Art, Kolkata in...
  
  
• Subhash Awchat
  Subhash Awchat
  Subhash Awchat is an Indian artist and author based in Mumbai.-Literary career:Awchat wrote the novel Madam in memory of Smita Patil, a collection of short stories, and a book of essays....
  
  
• Subodh Gupta
  Subodh Gupta
  Subodh Gupta is an artist based in New Delhi. He was born in Khagaul,land famous for ancient mathemetician Aryabhatta in Patna. He studied at the College of Art, Patna in 1983 - 1988, before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment...
  
  
• Thukral & Tagra
  Thukral & Tagra
  Thukral & Tagra is an artist team made up of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra. T&T, as they are commonly called, work in a wide variety of media including, but not limited to, graphics, videos, music, interiors, product design and paintings....
  
  
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• Trupti Patel
  Trupti Patel
  Trupti Patel is a qualified pharmacist from Berkshire, England, who was acquitted in 2003 of murdering three of her children, Amar , Jamie , and Mia ....
  
  
• Tyeb Mehta
  Tyeb Mehta
  Tayyabb Mehta was a noted Indian painter. He was part of the noted Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, which included greats like F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza and M.F...
  
  
• Vagaram choudhary
• Vidha Saumya
• Justine Joy
• Madhan
  Madhan
  Madhan , whose real name is Maadapoosi Krishnaswamy Govinda Kumar, is a famous Tamil cartoonist, journalist, writer and film critic who works for Ananda Vikatan magazine, a leading Tamil weekly. Though his native is Thanjavur, he was brought up in Chennai...
  
  
• Gopulu
• Jeyaraj
• Maniam Selvan
• Trotsky Marudu