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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|none}} &lt;!-- This short description is INTENTIONALLY &quot;none&quot; - please see WP:SDNONE before you consider changing it! --&gt;<br /> This is a list of [[WP:GNG|notable]] artists who were born in [[India]] and or have a strong association with India.<br /> {{Dynamic list}}<br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable sortable&quot;<br /> |+<br /> !First <br /> !Middle<br /> !Last<br /> !Birth<br /> !Death<br /> !Notes<br /> |-<br /> |[[Nandalal Bose|Nandalal]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Nandalal Bose|Bose]]<br /> |1882<br /> |1966<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Akbar Padamsee|Akbar]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Akbar Padamsee|Padamsee]]<br /> |1928<br /> |2020<br /> |painter, printmaker<br /> |-<br /> |[[Sunil Das|Sunil]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Sunil Das|Das]]<br /> |1939<br /> |2015<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Manishi Dey|Manishi]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Manishi Dey|Dey]]<br /> |1909<br /> |1966<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Mukul Chandra Dey|Mukul]] <br /> |[[Mukul Chandra Dey|Chandra]]<br /> |[[Mukul Chandra Dey|Dey]]<br /> |1895<br /> |1989<br /> |printmaker<br /> |-<br /> |[[Kalipada Ghoshal|Kalipada]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Kalipada Ghoshal|Ghoshal]]<br /> |1906<br /> |1995<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Maniam|T.U]].<br /> |<br /> |[[Maniam|Subramaniam]]<br /> |1924<br /> |1968<br /> |pseudonym [[Maniam]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[Benode Behari Mukherjee|Benode]] <br /> |[[Benode Behari Mukherjee|Behari]]<br /> |[[Benode Behari Mukherjee|Mukherjee]]<br /> |1904<br /> |1980<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Annada Munsi|Annada]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Annada Munsi|Munsi]]<br /> |1905<br /> |1985<br /> |painter, writer<br /> |-<br /> |[[Manu Munsi|Manu]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Manu Munsi|Munsi]]<br /> |1924<br /> |2009<br /> |painter, sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Sobha Singh Naqqashi|Sobha]] <br /> |[[Sobha Singh Naqqashi|Singh]] <br /> |[[Sobha Singh Naqqashi|Naqqashi]]<br /> |1901<br /> |1986<br /> |director, illustrator<br /> |-<br /> |[[Satyajit Ray|Satyajit]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Satyajit Ray|Ray]]<br /> |1921<br /> |1992<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Jamini Roy|Jamini]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Jamini Roy|Roy]]<br /> |1887<br /> |1972<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Amrita Sher-Gil|Amrita]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Amrita Sher-Gil|Sher-Gil]]<br /> |1913<br /> |1941<br /> |Hungarian-Indian descent<br /> |-<br /> |[[Silpi|P.M.]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Silpi|Sreenivasan]]<br /> |1919<br /> |1983<br /> |pseudonym [[Silpi]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[S. G. Thakur Singh|S.G.]]<br /> |[[S. G. Thakur Singh|Thakur]] <br /> |[[S. G. Thakur Singh|Singh]]<br /> |1899<br /> |1976<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Abanindranath Tagore|Abanindranath]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Abanindranath Tagore|Tagore]]<br /> |1871<br /> |1951<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Gaganendranath Tagore|Gaganendranath]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Gaganendranath Tagore|Tagore]]<br /> |1867<br /> |1938<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Rabindranath Tagore|Rabindranath]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]]<br /> |1861<br /> |1941<br /> |pseudonym Bhanusimha <br /> |-<br /> |[[Raja Ravi Varma|Raja]] <br /> |[[Raja Ravi Varma|Ravi]] <br /> |[[Raja Ravi Varma|Varma]]<br /> |1848<br /> |1906<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Ramkinkar Baij|Ramkinkar]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Ramkinkar Baij|Baij]]<br /> |1906<br /> |1989<br /> |painter, sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Bapu (director)|Sattiraju]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Bapu (director)|Lakshminarayana]]<br /> |1933<br /> |2014<br /> |pseudonym [[Bapu (director)|Bapu]]<br /> |-<br /> |[[Manjit Bawa|Manjit]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Manjit Bawa|Bawa]]<br /> |1941<br /> |2008<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Bikash Bhattacharjee|Bikash]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Bikash Bhattacharjee|Bhattacharjee]]<br /> |1940<br /> |2006<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Krishna Reddy (artist)|Krishna]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Krishna Reddy (artist)|Reddy]]<br /> |1925<br /> |2018<br /> |printmaker, sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Nek Chand|Nek]] <br /> |[[Nek Chand|Chand]]<br /> |[[Nek Chand|Saini]]<br /> |1924<br /> |2015<br /> |sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Bijan Choudhury|Bijan]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Bijan Choudhury|Choudhury]]<br /> |1931<br /> |2012<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Dhiraj Choudhury|Dhiraj]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Dhiraj Choudhury|Choudhury]]<br /> |1936<br /> |2018<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Edmund Thomas Clint|Edmund]] <br /> |[[Edmund Thomas Clint|Thomas]] <br /> |[[Edmund Thomas Clint|Clint]] <br /> |1976<br /> |1983<br /> |child prodigy who painted over 25,000 paintings during his life of 6 years 11 months<br /> |-<br /> |[[Prafulla Dahanukar|Prafulla]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Prafulla Dahanukar|Dahanukar]]<br /> |1934<br /> |2014<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[M R D Dattan|M.R.D.]]<br /> |<br /> |[[M R D Dattan|Dattan]]<br /> |1935<br /> |2006<br /> |sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Kanu Desai|Kanu]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Kanu Desai|Desai]]<br /> |1907<br /> |1980<br /> |director, illustrator<br /> |-<br /> |[[John Wilkins (Indian artist)|John]] <br /> |<br /> |[[John Wilkins (Indian artist)|Wilkins]]<br /> |1927<br /> |1991<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Somalal Shah|Somalal]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Somalal Shah|Shah]] <br /> |1905<br /> |1994<br /> |<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |[[S.H. Raza|Sayed]]<br /> |[[S.H. Raza|Haider]]<br /> |[[S.H. Raza|Raza]]<br /> |1922<br /> |2016<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Piraji Sagara|Piraji]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Piraji Sagara|Sagara]]<br /> |1931<br /> |2014<br /> |painter, sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Mohan Samant|Mohan]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Mohan Samant|Samant]]<br /> |1924<br /> |2004<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Francis Newton Souza|Francis]] <br /> |[[Francis Newton Souza|Newton]] <br /> |[[Francis Newton Souza|Souza]] <br /> |1924<br /> |2002<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Bholekar Srihari|Srihari]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Bholekar Srihari|Bholekar]]<br /> |1941<br /> |2018<br /> |painter, sculptor, printmaker<br /> |-<br /> |[[Y.G. Srimati|Srimati]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Y.G. Srimati|Y.G.]]<br /> |1926<br /> |2007<br /> |painter, dancer<br /> |-<br /> |[[K.G. Subramanyan|Kalpathi]]<br /> |[[K.G. Subramanyan|Ganpathi]]<br /> |[[K.G. Subramanyan|Subramanyan]] <br /> |1924<br /> |2016<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Anil Kumar Dutta|Anil]] <br /> |[[Anil Kumar Dutta|Kumar]] <br /> |[[Anil Kumar Dutta|Dutta]]<br /> |1933<br /> |2006<br /> |painter, writer<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |[[S. Rajam|Sundaram]]<br /> |<br /> |[[S. Rajam|Rajam]] <br /> |1919<br /> |2010<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[B. Prabha|B.]] <br /> |<br /> |[[B. Prabha|Prabha]]<br /> |1933<br /> |2001<br /> |<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |[[Rajan Krishnan|Rajan]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Rajan Krishnan|Krishnan]] <br /> |1933<br /> |2001<br /> |<br /> <br /> |-<br /> |[[Bhupen Khakkar|Bhupen]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Bhupen Khakkar|Khakkar]] <br /> |1934<br /> |2003<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Abdul Kadar Khatri|Abdul]] <br /> |[[Abdul Kadar Khatri|Kadar]] <br /> |[[Abdul Kadar Khatri|Khatri]] <br /> |1961<br /> |2019<br /> |master craftsmen, printmaker<br /> |-<br /> |[[M.F. Husain|Maqbool]]<br /> |[[M.F. Husain|Fida]]<br /> |[[M.F. Husain|Husain]]<br /> |1915<br /> |2011<br /> |director, painter<br /> |-<br /> |[[Satish Gujral|Satish]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Satish Gujral|Gujral]]<br /> |1925<br /> |2020<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde|Vasudeo]] <br /> |[[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde|S.]] <br /> |[[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde|Gaitonde]] <br /> |1924<br /> |2001<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Badri Narayan|Badri]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Badri Narayan|Narayan]]<br /> |1929<br /> |2013<br /> |illustrator, writer<br /> |-<br /> |[[Rabin Mondal|Rabin]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Rabin Mondal|Mondal]] <br /> |1929<br /> |2019<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[K. K. Menon|K.K.]]<br /> |<br /> |[[K. K. Menon|Menon]]<br /> |1925<br /> |1999<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Srimati Lal|Srimati]] <br /> |[[Srimati Lal|Priyadarshini]]<br /> |[[Srimati Lal|Lal]]<br /> |1959<br /> |2019<br /> |painter, poet<br /> |-<br /> |[[Zarina (artist)|Zarina]] <br /> |<br /> |[[Zarina (artist)|Hashmi]]<br /> |1937<br /> |2020<br /> |printmaker, sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Pilloo Pochkhanawala|Pilloo]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Pilloo Pochkhanawala|Pochkhanawala]]<br /> |1923<br /> |1986<br /> |sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Gogi Saroj Pal|Gogi]]<br /> |[[Gogi Saroj Pal|Saroj]]<br /> |[[Gogi Saroj Pal|Pal]]<br /> |1945<br /> |2024<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Mrinalini Mukherjee|Mrinalini]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Mrinalini Mukherjee|Mukherjee]]<br /> |1949<br /> |2015<br /> |sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Lalita Lajmi|Lalitha]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Lalita Lajmi|Lajmi]]<br /> |1932<br /> |2023<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Latika Katt|Latika]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Latika Katt|Katt]]<br /> |1948<br /> |2025<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Pratima Devi (painter)|Pratima]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Pratima Devi (painter)|Devi]]<br /> |1893<br /> |1969<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Hema Upadhyay|Hema]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Hema Upadhyay|Upadhyay]]<br /> |1972<br /> |2015<br /> |sculptor<br /> |-<br /> |[[Atasi Barua|Atasi]]<br /> |<br /> |[[Atasi Barua|Barua]]<br /> |1921<br /> |2016<br /> |<br /> |}<br /> <br /> == Contemporary artists ==<br /> <br /> * [[Dhruvi Acharya]] (born 1971), visual artist<br /> * [[Ratnadeep Adivrekar]] (born 1974)<br /> * [[Anurag Anand]] (born 1978), visual artist and writer<br /> * [[Sekar Ayyanthole]] (born 1954)<br /> * [[Bhuri Bai]] (1968), Bhil artist<br /> * [[Madhuri Bhaduri]] (born 1958)<br /> * [[Dimpy Bhalotia]] (born 1987), street photographer<br /> * [[Maya Burman]] (born 1971)<br /> * [[Jogen Chowdhury]] (born 1939)<br /> * [[Daku (artist)|Daku]], pseudonymous graffiti artist<br /> * [[Jahar Dasgupta]] (born 1942), painter<br /> * [[Vikash Maharaj]] (born 1957), artist<br /> * [[Kurchi Dasgupta]] (born 1974)<br /> * [[Shashikant Dhotre]] (born 1982), drawing, painter, installations<br /> * [[Gurpreet Singh Dhuri]] (born 1983)<br /> * [[Atul Dodiya]] (born 1959), painter<br /> * [[Aman Singh Gulati]] (born 2000), world&#039;s first almond artist<br /> * [[Manav Gupta]] (born 1967)<br /> * [[Shilpa Gupta]] (born 1976)<br /> * [[Saba Hasan]] (born 1962) contemporary artist<br /> * [[S. Jithesh]] (born 1974)<br /> * [[Reena Saini Kallat]] (born 1973)<br /> * [[Anish Kapoor]] (born 1954)<br /> * [[Siddharth Katragadda]] (born 1972)<br /> * [[Mohammed Yusuf Khatri]] (born 1967), Bagh printer<br /> * [[Sanjay Khatri]] (born 1987), ballet dancer<br /> * [[Bharti Kher]] (born 1969), painter, sculptor and installation artist<br /> * [[Nandita Kumar]] (born 1981), new media artist<br /> * [[Paris Mohan Kumar]]<br /> * [[Madhan (writer)|Madhan]] (born 1947)<br /> * [[Paresh Maity]] (born 1965), painter and sculptor<br /> * [[Ananta Mandal]] (born 1983), watercolorist<br /> * [[Ravi Mandlik]] (born 1960), painter<br /> * [[Kailash Chandra Meher]] (born 1954), painter<br /> * [[Bhavna Mehta]] (born 1968), paper-cut artist<br /> * [[Anjolie Ela Menon]] (born 1940), painter<br /> * [[Amitabh Mitra]] (born 1955)<br /> * [[Samir Mondal]] (born 1952), watercolourist<br /> * [[N.K.P. Muthukoya]] (born 1941)<br /> <br /> * [[Balan Nambiar]] (born 1937), sculptor, painter and research scholar<br /> * [[Satyendra Pakhale]] (born 1967)<br /> * [[Gogi Saroj Pal]] (born 1945)<br /> * [[Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri]] (born 1983), photographer, film director<br /> * [[Aditya Pande]] (born 1976), painter, sculptor, digital artist<br /> * [[Jayant Parikh]] (born 1940)<br /> * [[Baiju Parthan]] (born 1956), painter<br /> * [[Gieve Patel]] (born 1940)<br /> * [[Sudarsan Pattnaik]] (born 1977), sand artist<br /> * [[Pranava Prakash]] (born 1979)<br /> * [[Gargi Raina]] (born 1961), painter<br /> * [[Devajyoti Ray]] (born 1974)<br /> * [[Sajitha R. Shankar]] (born 1967)<br /> * [[Suvigya Sharma]] (born 1983)<br /> * [[Ram Chandra Shukla]] (1925–2016)<br /> * [[Vibhor Sogani]] (born 1967)<br /> * [[Karuna Sukka]] (born 1980), printmaker<br /> * [[Vivan Sundaram]] (born 1943), installation artist<br /> * [[K.R.Sunil]] (born 1975)<br /> * [[Surekha (artist)|Surekha]], artist, video and photo installations<br /> * [[Thukral &amp; Tagra]] (born 1976, born 1979)<br /> * [[K. P. Thomas (artist)]] (born 1951)<br /> * [[Tom Vattakuzhy]] (born 1967)<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> {{Portal|Biography|India|Lists|Visual arts}}<br /> * [[List of Indian women artists]]<br /> * [[List of most expensive Indian artists]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Asian artists}}<br /> {{Artists by nationality}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Indian artists}}<br /> [[Category:Lists of Indian artists| ]]<br /> [[Category:Lists of artists by nationality|Indian]]</div>

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