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List Of Indian Women Artists
Following is a list of Indian women artists were born in India and or have a strong association with India. A * Dhruvi Acharya, visual artist * Iloosh Ahluwalia (b. 1970s), painter * V. Anamika, contemporary artist B * Bhuri Bai (b. 1968), artist * Lado Bai, Bhil tribal artist * Uma Bardhan (b.1945), painter * Atasi Barua (1921–2016), painter * Madhuri Bhaduri (b. 1958), painter * Dimpy Bhalotia (1987), street photographer * Pamella Bordes, photographer * Vasundhara Tewari Broota (b. 1955), painter * Maya Burman (b. 1971), ink and watercolour painter, based in France C * Shanthi Chandrasekar, visual artist * Anju Chaudhuri (b.1944), artist * Manimala Chitrakar, Bengal patua artist D * Prafulla Dahanukar (1934–2014), painter * Bharti Dayal (b.1961), painter * Baua Devi, Mithila painter * Pratima Devi (painter) (1893–1969), painter, dance teacher * Anita Dube (1958), contemporary artist G * Opashona Ghosh, illustrator * Sheela Gowda (b. 1957) H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dhruvi Acharya
Dhruvi Acharya (born in 1971) is an Indian artist known for her psychologically complex and visually layered paintings. She has recently started creating Ceramic, ceramics. She is based in Mumbai, India. Early life and education Dhruvi Acharya was born in 1971 in India and she was raised in Mumbai. She attended Walsingham House School, a private girls school in Mumbai. Acharya received her undergraduate degree in 1993 in Applied Arts at the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai. She went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 1998 from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. At MICA, she studied with painter Grace Hartigan. She was married to filmmaker Manish Acharya, with whom she had two sons. Manish Acharya died in 2010 in an accident. Work Acharya was featured in India Today news magazine in January 2005 as one of the 50 Indians under 35 years of age that are on the "fast track to success." She has exhib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bharti Dayal
Bharti Dayal (born December, 1961 in Samastipur) is an Indian artist who specializes in Madhubani art. Biography Dayal was born in the Samastipur district of North Bihar, the Mithila region famous for Madhubani painting. She has completed her Bachelors in Science (B.Sc) and completed her postgraduation with a Masters in Science (M.Sc). Since 1991, she has lived in Delhi. Work From a young age, Dayal was taught Madhubani painting by her mother and grandmother. She pursued the art form professionally from 1984. She has worked to bring innovation in the traditional art practiced in Mithila, and train other women artists from the region at her studio in New Delhi. Her style is known for bringing a contemporary cast to traditional Madhubani art using modern media such as acrylic and canvas. She paints with natural, vegetable-based colors. Her renditions of Krishna and Radha are said to depict undercurrents of "love, longing, and peace". Exhibitions Dayal has held numerou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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'' (Writers Workshop, 1986), ''Six Poems'' (London, 1997) and ''The Warriors: I Guerrieri'', published in English and Italian (London, 2006). Srimati Lal also wrote about F. N. Souza and India's Contemporary Art Movement for the volume ''Culture, Society and Development in India'' (2009). She published an anthology of Indo-Anglian writers dedicated to Purushottama Lal, ''Flowers For My Father: Tributes to P. Lal'' (2011). Early life and education Srimati Lal was born in Kolkata. She was the daughter of Purushottama Lal, the founder of Writers Workshop as well as a renowned poet and transcreator of the ''Mahabharata'', and his wife Shyamasree Devi. Her elder brother was Ananda Lal. She studied at Loreto House. She was the gold m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lalita Lajmi
Lalita Lajmi (17 October 1932 – 13 February 2023) was an Indian painter. She was a self-taught artist born into a family involved in the arts, and was very fond of classical dance even as a child. She was the sister of Hindi film director, producer, and actor Guru Dutt. In 1994, she was invited to the Guru Dutt Film Festival, organised by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the Indian High Commissioner at Nehru Centre, London. Her work was also influenced by Indian films such as those made by her brother, Satyajit Ray and Raj Kapoor. In one of her interviews Lalitha Lajmi said that, being from a middle-class background, her family could not afford her joining classical dance classes. She was from a traditional family and hence developed an interest in art. Her uncle B. B. Benegal, who was a commercial artist from Kolkata, brought her a box of paints. She seriously began painting in 1961 but in those days one could not sell one's work and hence she had to teach in an art school to support he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 Saadiya was born into a Sikh family. Her birthplace is Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. Kochar's education was from a missionary school, Convent of Jesus and Mary in Delhi but she never went to a regular college. Having studied mass communication, from Sri Aurobindo Institute of Mass communication she went on to study at Triveni Kala Sangam, under world renowned artist O. P. Sharma, a photographer famous for black and white images. She got a diploma in photography from ICPP, Australia. Career When she was 24, this Indian photographer published her first book, ''Being....''. Kochar, has worked in Kashmir for over a decade, has taught photography at the Pearl Academy of Fashion and is the creative head of astudio, in Delhi. In 2012, she organise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 the nature of things. Inspired by a wide range of sources and making practices, she employs the readymade in wide arc of meaning and transformation. Kher's works thus appear to move through time, using reference as a counterpoint and contradiction as a visual tool. Early life Kher was born in London, England, in 1969. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic, London, from 1987 to 1988, and then attended the Foundation Course in Art and Design at Newcastle Polytechnic from 1988 to 1991, receiving a BA Honours in Fine Art, Painting. She moved to India in 1993, where she lives and works today. Selected works and themes Central themes within her work include the notion of the self as formed by multiple and interlocking relationships with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 exhibitions in India. Education and career Renuka was born in 1957 in the village of Kesaramadu, whence her last name was adopted, near the city of Tumakuru in Tumakuru district in the Indian state Karnataka. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Art History from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath – Bengaluru, Master of Arts (MA) in History from Annamalai University – Chennai and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) from Bangalore University. She also obtained a Government Diploma (GD) in Painting with 1st Rank for 5 years and Gold Medal from the Ken School of Art – Bengaluru under the instruction of the legendary artist R M Hadapad. She served as a member of the Karnataka Lalit Kala Academy (KLA) in Bangalore, and as a fine art lectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Latika Katt
Latika Katt (20 February 1948 – 25 January 2025) was an Indian sculptor who specialized in stone carving, metal casting and bronze sculpting. She won the Beijing Art Biennale Award for her bronze work titled "Makar Sankranti at Dashawmeth Ghat, Varanasi. Life and career Latika Katt graduated from The Doon School, an all-boys school in Dehradun. She admitted that being in the minority as a girl in an all-boys school gave her confidence and courage in her later years. She started attending the Baroda College of Art to pursue Bachelor of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda where she graduated with First Class honours in 1971. She was awarded a scholarship to research at the Slade School of Art, London University, London in 1981. She first got great recognition in the 1970s for a body of experimental work made from cow dung as she did not have funds for anything else. Her talent was spotted by the politician and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during an art exhibiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Baaraan Ijlal
Baaraan Ijlal is a self-taught artist based in New Delhi, India. Through her work, she seeks to explore the themes of anonymity and individual liberty as to how anonymity serves as a cornerstone for personal freedom. This is punctuated by a dedicated focus on creating an atmosphere of attentive listening that invites viewers to become witnesses to the untold stories inhabiting her creations. Her artistic mediums include acrylic paint, sound, video, light, embroidery, galvanized iron, resin installations, among others. Her work has been prominently featured in solo exhibitions and collaborative showcases. It includes expositions and installations at prominent art galleries and museums such as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya and Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation at Mumbai, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art at New Delhi, Conflictorium Museum at Ahmedabad, the Devi Art Foundation, Colomboscope at Colombo, India Art Fair, Art Dubai, Art Singapore, Chintretsukan Gallery at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 University of Delhi, Delhi University, New Delhi and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University New York. She has also trained in art at the Ceruleum - Ecole d’arts Visuels, Lausanne and art history at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her work includes painting, photography, book installations, voice works and film. Her works are with collectors in India, UK, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Japan, Holland, USA, Spain and France. Shows and exhibitions An active artist since 1996, Hasan has participated in several art shows, exhibitions, biennale's, photo exhibitions and film festivals. Some of these include: Awards and recognition Some of Hasan's awards and accolades include: * 2024: ''FICIMAD Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid'', Spain * 2023: ''Vienna International Film Awards'', Austria * 2023: ''Mannheim Arts and Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sheela Gowda
Sheela Gowda (born 1957 in Bhadravati, India) is a contemporary artist living and working in Bangalore. Gowda studied painting at Ken School of Art, Bangalore, India (1979) pursued a postgraduate diploma at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India (1982), and a MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 1986. Trained as a painter, Gowda expanded her practice into sculpture and installation by employing a diversity of material like human hair, cow-dung, incense and kumkuma powder (a natural pigment most often available in brilliant red). She is known for her 'process-orientated' work, often inspired by the everyday labor experiences of marginalized people in India. Her work is associated with postminimalism drawing from ritualistic associations. Her early oils with pensive girls in nature were influenced by her mentor K. G. Subramanyan, and later ones by Nalini Malani towards a somewhat expressionistic direction depicting a middle class chaos and tensions un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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 be 90s-inspired, pop-art-style works, featuring illustrations on gender and queer identity, drawing on into themes of femininity, gender appropriation and eroticism. According to the '' Verve magazine'', her works are aimed towards questioning ideas on cultural acceptance, femininity, and queer identity. Born in the city of Kolkata, Ghosh graduated from the Central Saint Martins in London with a degree in communication design. Following graduation, she worked backstages in the theatres of London and later at the Berghain nightclub in the city of Berlin. She describes herself as an accidental artist, having received success internationally and her works displayed in various art galleries of London and Berlin. She has also worked in collabora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
