Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship

Template:Infobox award The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also known as Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna (Sanskrit ratna, "gem") is an honor for the fine arts in India. It is awarded to eminent artists for their lifetime achievements in the field of visual arts by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art. It is regarded as the highest recognition and honour that can be bestowed on an artist in the country as the academy is a national body of the Government of India.

The ‘Fellow,’ carries a purse-money of Rs.25,000/-, a citation and a plaque. The Fellow is honored with a portfolio about their major art works. The first elected fellow was Jamini Roy in 1955. Most recent fellowship was awarded for the year 2021 to Himmat Shah, Jyoti Bhatt and Shyam Sharma on 9 April 2022.

List of Fellows

List of Lalit Kala Akademi Fellows

Year	Image	Recipient
1955		Template:Sortname
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1964	File:Nanasaheb Karmarkar.jpg	Template:Sortname
1964	File:Sawlaram Haldankar.jpg	Template:Sortname
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1970	File:RavishankarRaval 1966.jpg	Template:Sortname
1974	File:N. S. Bendre.jpg	Template:Sortname
1974	File:Mulk Raj Anand.jpg	Template:Sortname
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1976	File:Kkhebbar.jpg	Template:Sortname
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1978	File:MFHussain2.jpg	Template:Sortname
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1980	File:V. R. Amberkar.jpg	Template:Sortname
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1982	File:K. S. Kulkarni.jpg	Template:Sortname
1982	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
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1982	File:Chandigarh, India rose garden bust of Dr Randhawa 5.jpg	Template:Sortname
1984	File:K. H. Ara.png	Template:Sortname
1984	File:Sayed Haider Raza (1995).png	Template:Sortname
1985	File:K.G. Subramanyan 2008.jpg	Template:Sortname
1985	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
1986	File:Shiavax Chavda.jpg	Template:Sortname
1986	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
1987	File:Mukul Dey.jpg	Template:Sortname
1987	File:Artist Svetoslav Roerich.jpg	Template:Sortname
1988	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
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1990	Template:Dash	Bimal Das Gupta
1990	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
1993	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
1993	File:AN Sehgal 2023 stamp of India 2.jpg	Template:Sortname
1995	File:Kapilavatsyayan (cropped).jpg	Template:Sortname
1995	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
2002	File:A. Ramachandran 2012.jpg	Template:Sortname
2003	File:Bikash.jpg	Template:Sortname
2004	File:Keshav Malik.jpg	Template:Sortname
2004	File:Akbar Padamsee.jpg	Template:Sortname
2006	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
2007	Template:Dash	Template:Sortname
2011	File:Ram kumar01.jpg	Template:Sortname
2014	File:The Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Shri K.K. Chakravarty conferring the fellowship on eminent artist Arpita Singh, at a function, in New Delhi on October 10, 2014 (cropped).jpg	Template:Sortname
2021	Template:Dash	Himmat Shah
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2021	File:Shyam Sharma at Bihar Museum on 4 December.jpg	Template:Sortname

See also

• List of Sangeet Natak Akademi fellows
• List of Sahitya Akademi fellows

External links

• Template:Official website of the Lalit Kala Akademi