Following is a list of Indian women artists were born in India and or have a strong association with India.

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* Dhruvi Acharya, visual artist *

Iloosh Ahluwalia Iloosh Judge Ahluwalia is an Indian artist, "brand ambassador", and businesswoman. Life Educated at the Lawrence School, Sanawar, where she began to paint in earnest, Ahluwalia married an Indian Army officer and has two daughters. In 1998 she b ...

(b. 1970s), painter *

V. Anamika V. Anamika (born 12 March 1975) is a Contemporary Artist born in Neelankarai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, a student of S. Dhanapal, an eminent artist of India. She received her master's degree in Fine Arts (Painting and Print Making) in 1999 from G ...

, contemporary artist

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* Bhuri Bai (b. 1968), artist * Lado Bai, Bhil tribal artist *

Uma Bardhan Uma Bardhan (born in 1945) is an Indian contemporary artist. Her paintings are usually themed on stories and positions which are under-represented in both mainstream and contemporary art culture. Her preferred medium is water color on silk, ...

(b.1945), painter * Atasi Barua (1921–2016), painter *

Madhuri Bhaduri Madhuri Bhaduri (born 1958) is an Indian artist. Originally a sportsperson, playing badminton and squash at a national level, Bhaduri began painting in 1977. She gave away her early artworks to friends and family, and then began to sell painting ...

(b. 1958), painter * Dimpy Bhalotia (1987), street photographer *

Pamella Bordes Pamela Chaudry Singh (born 1961), known for some years as Pamella Bordes, is an Indian photographer and former Femina Miss India, Miss India. Personal life Singh was born in New Delhi in 1961; her father, Major Mahinder Singh Kadian, was an of ...

, photographer *

Vasundhara Tewari Broota Vasundhara Tewari Broota (born 1955) is an Indian painter who does figurative paintings based on the perception of a woman and the psycho-political existence of the female body, traditional landscapes, still life with exquisite meaning. She worked ...

(b. 1955), painter *

Maya Burman Maya Burman (born 1971)Mini Chandran-Kurian"Maya Memsaab" ''The Times of India'', Nov 10, 2002. is a French artist. Biography Burman was born in Lot et Garrone, France and brought up in France. She initially trained as an architect, but found the ...

(b. 1971), ink and watercolour painter, based in France

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Shanthi Chandrasekar Shanthi Chandrasekar is an American artist of Indian ancestry. Her artwork is strongly influenced by her training in the traditional art form of Thanjavur painting. She resides in Maryland, in the Greater Washington, DC area. She was born in Tami ...

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Anju Chaudhuri Anju Chaudhuri ( bn, অঞ্জু চৌধুরী) (born 1944) is an Indian artist. In Paris she was taught engraving by Stanley William Hayter. Chaudhuri's work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London ...

(b.1944), artist *

Manimala Chitrakar Manimala Chitrakar is a patua artist from West Bengal. Biography Manimala belongs to a traditional community of chitrakars (itinerant scroll painters) from West Bengal. She was born in the village of Naya in the family of Dukhushyam Chitrakar, ...

, Bengal patua artist

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Prafulla Dahanukar Prafulla Dahanukar (1934 – 2014) was an Indian painter, a leader in modern Indian art who also helped and influenced many young artists in India. Biography Prafulla Dahanukar was born Prafulla Joshi in Bandora, Goa to Subrai Anant Joshi ...

(1934–2014), painter *

Bharti Dayal Bharti Dayal (born December, 1961 in Samastipur) is an Indian artist specialized in Madhubani art. Biography Dayal was born in the Darbhanga district of North Bihar, the Mithila region famous for Madhubani painting. She obtained a bachelor� ...

(b.1961), painter *

Baua Devi Baua Devi is a Mithila painting artist from Jitwarpur village of Madhubani District in Bihar. Mithila painting is an ancient folk art that originated in the region. It is recognized as a series of complex geometric and linear patterns traced on th ...

, Mithila painter *

Pratima Devi (painter) Pratima Devi (1893–1969) was an Indian Bengali artist, widely known for her artistic abilities. She was wife of Rathindranath Tagore. The poet took special interest in developing her capabilities. Parentage She was daughter of Seshendra Bhusa ...

(1893–1969), painter, dance teacher *

Anita Dube Anita Dube (born 28 November 1958) is an Indian contemporary artist whose work has been widely exhibited in India. Early life Dube was born on 28 November 1958 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India to a family of physicians. She completed her B. A ...

(1958), contemporary artist

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Opashona Ghosh Opashona Ghosh (born 1987, Calcutta) is an Indian illustrator and graphic designer based in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal. Her works are known for a feminist approach to clubbing culture, mental and sexual health, and have been described to ...

, illustrator * Sheela Gowda (b. 1957)

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Saba Hasan Saba Hasan is an Indian contemporary artist who is based in Goa and New Delhi. She has a BA (Honours) in Economics from Delhi University, New Delhi and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University New York. She has also train ...

(b. 1962), contemporary artist

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Latika Katt Latika (Hindi: लतिका) is a Hindu/Sanskrit Indian feminine given name, which means "goddess". Notable people named Latika * Latika Bourke (born 1984), Australian author and journalist * Latika Katt (born 1948), Indian sculptor * L ...

(b.1948), sculptor *

Renuka Kesaramadu Renuka Kesaramadu is a contemporary painter and sculptor from India. She is best known internationally through her collaborative art exhibitions and participations in workshops in Europe. She has also curated a few international art symposia and ...

, painter *

Bharti Kher Bharti Kher is a contemporary artist. In a career spanning nearly three decades, she has worked across painting, sculpture and installation. Throughout her practice she has displayed an unwavering relationship with the body, its narratives, and ...

(b. 1969), painter, sculptor and installation artist *

Saadiya Kochar Saadiya Kochar is an Indian woman photographer and solo traveller. Her works can be broadly classified into art and social documentary photography, although she dabbles into portraiture, street and fashion as well. Early years and education S ...

, (b. 1979), photographer

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* Lalitha Lajmi (b.1932), painter *

Srimati Lal Srimati Priyadarshini Lal (1959-2019) was an Indian artist, poet, writer, art critic, art authenticator and curator. She held over twenty exhibitions of her work internationally. She was the author of three books of poetry: ''The Window'' (Wr ...

(1959-2019), painter

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* Nalini Malani (b.1946), painter, video and installation artist *

Divya Mehra Divya Mehra is a Canadian artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Known for her meticulous attention to the interaction of form, medium and site, Mehra's work deals with her diasporic experiences and historical narratives. She incorporates found artifact ...

(b. 1981), multidisciplinary artist * Rooma Mehra (b. 1967), painter, sculptor and poet * Bhavna Mehta (b. 1968), paper cut artist *

Anjolie Ela Menon Anjolie Ela Menon (born 17 July 1940) is one of India's leading contemporary artists. Her paintings are in several major collections, including the NGMA, the Chandigarh Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. In 2006, her triptych work "Yatra" w ...

(b. 1940), painter and muralist *

Mrinalini Mukherjee Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949 – 15 February 2015) was an Indian sculptor. Known for her distinctly contemporary style and use of dyed and woven hemp fibre, an unconventional material for sculpting, she had a career lasting over four decades from t ...

(1949-2015), sculptor

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Kota Neelima Kota Neelima is an Indian politician, author, researcher, political commentator and artist. Her writing, art, and academic work include a focus on the themes of rural distress, gender, farmer suicides, and the peripheries of democratic societie ...

, painter * Mubarack Nissa (born 1981), contemporary artist and curator

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Kuzana Ogg Kuzana Ogg (born 1971) is an Indian-American painter who lives in the United States. Kuzana's first solo museum exhibition was Oil at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2014. A second solo followed shortly thereafter, Rev Zero at the Bakersfi ...

(b. 1971), painter

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Gogi Saroj Pal Gogi Saroj Pal (born 1945, Neoli, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an eminent Indian artist. She works in multiple media, including gouache, oil, ceramic and weaving. Her works usually have women as their subject, and many of her paintings have a fantas ...

(b. 1945), painter, sculptor, printmaker, installation * Ketaki Pimpalkhare (b. 1977), painter * Pilloo Pochkhanawala (1923–1986), sculptor *

B. Prabha B. Prabha (1933 – 2001) was a prolific Indian artist who worked primarily in oil on canvas. She is best known for her graceful, elongated figures of pensive rural women, each dominated by a single colour. By the time of her death, her work ha ...

(1933–2001), painter

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* Gargi Raina (b. 1961), painter *

Chitra Ramanathan Chitra Ramanathan or Chitra, is an Indian American contemporary visual artist and educator living in the United States, mainly known for her predominantly abstract mixed media paintings. Her body of work visually portrays happiness. Many of th ...

, Indian American abstract painter *

Rathika Ramasamy Rathika Ramasamy is an Indian wildlife photographer. She is based in Chennai and operates as a freelance photographer. She has received many accolades for her photographs and has been called the "first Indian woman to strike an international rep ...

, wildlife photographer

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Tara Sabharwal Tara Sabharwal (born 1957, New Delhi) is an Indian people, Indian-born, US-based painter and printmaker. Known for her colorful, subtly layered paintings, Sabharwal has had 42 solo shows in the UK, US, India, among others. She has received seve ...

(b.1957), painter * Nelly Sethna (1932–1992), textile artist *

Tejal Shah Tejal Shah (; born 1979) is an Indian contemporary visual artist and curator. She works within the mediums of video art, photography, performance, drawing, sound work, and spatial installations. Shah explores topics in her work including the LGB ...

(born 1979), multidisciplinary contemporary artist *

Nilima Sheikh Nilima Sheikh (born 18 November 1945) is a visual artist based in Baroda, India. Since the mid-80s, Sheikh has done extensive research about traditional art forms in India, advocated for the sustainability of the practice of traditional painte ...

(b. 1945) visual artist * Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941), painter * Arpita Singh (1937), painter *

Dayanita Singh Dayanita Singh (born 18 March 1961) is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books. Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, draw ...

(b. 1961), photographer *

Emelina Soares Emelina Soares (born 1993) is an Indian artist, art historian, and educator who uses site-specific installation, animation, projection, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Common themes of her works include ecology, ethology, Human migration, migr ...

, artist and art historian *

Y.G. Srimati Y.G. Srimati (1926 - 2007) 20th century musician, dancer and painter born in Mysore, India. From a very young age, she was trained in Indian classical music, dance and painting . Y.G. Srimati became a highly accomplished vocalist and performer ...

(1926–2007), painter * Karuna Sukka (b. 1980), printmaker * Surekha, video artist * Kruttika Susarla, comic book writer and illustrator

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* Jaya Thyagarajan (1956–2015), painter

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Hema Upadhyay Hema Upadhyay (born Hema Hirani; 1972 – 11 December 2015) was an Indian artist based in Mumbai. She was known for photography and sculptural installations. She was active from 1998 until her death in 2015. Personal life Born Hema Hirani ...

(1972–2015), photographer and installation artist

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Geeta Vadhera Geeta Vadhera is an Indian artist. She has exhibited her oil paintings and has published a book of poetry. Early life Geeta Vadhera was born in India to a father who was a poet and a mother who was an artist. She studied for a Bachelor of A ...

, contemporary artist *

Rukmini Varma Rukmini Varma (born 1940) is an Indian artist based in Bangalore. Life She was born as Bharani Thirunal Rukmini Bayi, Fourth Princess of Travancore to Princess Uthram Thirunal Lalithamba Bayi and Sri Kerala Varma Koil Thampuran Avargal, she is ...

(b.1940), artist *

Vinita Vasu Vinita Vasu is a visual artist and designer residing in Delhi, India. She directed a short film named ''Beaming Blossom'' which won her a Special Festival Mention Award at the Children's International Cine Festival in the year 2016. Introducti ...

, visual artist and designer *

Durga Bai Vyom Durga Bai Vyam (born in 1973) is an Indian artist. She is one of the foremost female artists based in Bhopal working in the Gond tradition of Tribal Art. Most of Durga's work is rooted in her birthplace, Barbaspur, a village in the Mandla distr ...

(b. 1973)

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