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This is a list of [[BP:GNG|notable]] artists who were born in [[India]] and or have a strong association with India.
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This is a list of [[WP:GNG|notable]] artists who were born in [[India]] and or have a strong association with India.
* [[Amrita Sher-Gil]] (1913–1941)
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* [[Jamini Roy]] (1887–1972)
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* [[Kalipada Ghoshal]] (1906–1995)
|+
* [[Maniam]] (1924–1968)
!First
* [[Manishi Dey]] (1909–1966)
!Middle
* [[Mukul Chandra Dey]] (1895–1989)
!Last
* [[Nandalal Bose]] (1882–1966)
!Birth
* [[Rabindranath Tagore]] (1861–1941)
!Death
* [[Raja Ravi Varma]] (1848–1906)
!Notes
* [[S. G. Thakur Singh]] (1899–1976)
|-
* [[Silpi]] (1919–1983)
|[[Nandalal Bose|Nandalal]]
* [[Benode Behari Mukherjee]] (1904–1980)
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* [[Gaganendranath Tagore]] (1867–1938)
|[[Nandalal Bose|Bose]]
* [[Sunil Das]] (1939–2015)
|1882
* [[Anukul Charan Munshi]]
|1966
* [[Annada Munshi]] (1905-1985)
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* [[Pratip Munshi]]
|-
* [[Manu Munshi]] (1924-2009)
|[[Akbar Padamsee|Akbar]]
* [[Kumkum Munshi]]
|
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|[[Akbar Padamsee|Padamsee]]
|1928
|2020
|painter, printmaker
|-
|[[Sunil Das|Sunil]]  
|
|[[Sunil Das|Das]]
|1939
|2015
|
|-
|[[Manishi Dey|Manishi]]  
|
|[[Manishi Dey|Dey]]
|1909
|1966
|
|-
|[[Mukul Chandra Dey|Mukul]]
|[[Mukul Chandra Dey|Chandra]]
|[[Mukul Chandra Dey|Dey]]
|1895
|1989
|printmaker
|-
|[[Kalipada Ghoshal|Kalipada]]
|
|[[Kalipada Ghoshal|Ghoshal]]
|1906
|1995
|
|-
|[[Maniam|T.U]].
|
|[[Maniam|Subramaniam]]
|1924
|1968
|pseudonym [[Maniam]]
|-
|[[Benode Behari Mukherjee|Benode]] 
|[[Benode Behari Mukherjee|Behari]]
|[[Benode Behari Mukherjee|Mukherjee]]
|1904
|1980
|
|-
|[[Annada Munsi|Annada]]
|
|[[Annada Munsi|Munsi]]
|1905
|1985
|painter, writer
|-
|[[Manu Munsi|Manu]]
|
|[[Manu Munsi|Munsi]]
|1924
|2009
|painter, sculptor
|-
|[[Sobha Singh Naqqashi|Sobha]]
|[[Sobha Singh Naqqashi|Singh]]
|[[Sobha Singh Naqqashi|Naqqashi]]
|1901
|1986
|director, illustrator
|-
|[[Satyajit Ray|Satyajit]]
|
|[[Satyajit Ray|Ray]]
|1921
|1992
|
|-
|[[Jamini Roy|Jamini]]
|
|[[Jamini Roy|Roy]]
|1887
|1972
|
|-
|[[Amrita Sher-Gil|Amrita]]
|
|[[Amrita Sher-Gil|Sher-Gil]]
|1913
|1941
|Hungarian-Indian descent
|-
|[[Silpi|P.M.]]
|
|[[Silpi|Sreenivasan]]
|1919
|1983
|pseudonym [[Silpi]]
|-
|[[S. G. Thakur Singh|S.G.]]
|[[S. G. Thakur Singh|Thakur]]  
|[[S. G. Thakur Singh|Singh]]
|1899
|1976
|
|-
|[[Abanindranath Tagore|Abanindranath]]
|
|[[Abanindranath Tagore|Tagore]]
|1871
|1951
|
|-
|[[Gaganendranath Tagore|Gaganendranath]]  
|
|[[Gaganendranath Tagore|Tagore]]
|1867
|1938
|
|-
|[[Rabindranath Tagore|Rabindranath]]
|
|[[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]]
|1861
|1941
|pseudonym Bhanusimha
|-
|[[Raja Ravi Varma|Raja]]  
|[[Raja Ravi Varma|Ravi]]
|[[Raja Ravi Varma|Varma]]
|1848
|1906
|
|-
|[[Ramkinkar Baij|Ramkinkar]] 
|
|[[Ramkinkar Baij|Baij]]
|1906
|1989
|painter, sculptor
|-
|[[Bapu (director)|Sattiraju]]
|
|[[Bapu (director)|Lakshminarayana]]
|1933
|2014
|pseudonym [[Bapu (director)|Bapu]]
|-
|[[Manjit Bawa|Manjit]]
|
|[[Manjit Bawa|Bawa]]
|1941
|2008
|
|-
|[[Bikash Bhattacharjee|Bikash]]
|
|[[Bikash Bhattacharjee|Bhattacharjee]]
|1940
|2006
|
|-
|[[Krishna Reddy (artist)|Krishna]]  
|
|[[Krishna Reddy (artist)|Reddy]]
|1925
|2018
|printmaker, sculptor
|-
|[[Nek Chand|Nek]]  
|[[Nek Chand|Chand]]
|[[Nek Chand|Saini]]
|1924
|2015
|sculptor
|-
|[[Bijan Choudhury|Bijan]] 
|
|[[Bijan Choudhury|Choudhury]]
|1931
|2012
|
|-
|[[Dhiraj Choudhury|Dhiraj]] 
|
|[[Dhiraj Choudhury|Choudhury]]
|1936
|2018
|
|-
|[[Edmund Thomas Clint|Edmund]]
|[[Edmund Thomas Clint|Thomas]]
|[[Edmund Thomas Clint|Clint]]
|1976
|1983
|child prodigy who painted over 25,000 paintings during his life of 6 years 11 months
|-
|[[Prafulla Dahanukar|Prafulla]]
|
|[[Prafulla Dahanukar|Dahanukar]]
|1934
|2014
|
|-
|[[M R D Dattan|M.R.D.]]
|
|[[M R D Dattan|Dattan]]
|1935
|2006
|sculptor
|-
|[[Kanu Desai|Kanu]]
|
|[[Kanu Desai|Desai]]
|1907
|1980
|director, illustrator
|-
|[[John Wilkins (Indian artist)|John]]
|
|[[John Wilkins (Indian artist)|Wilkins]]
|1927
|1991
|
|-
|[[Somalal Shah|Somalal]]
|
|[[Somalal Shah|Shah]]  
|1905
|1994
|


==Contemporary artists==
|-
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|[[S.H. Raza|Sayed]]
* [[Anish Kapoor]] (Born 1954)
|[[S.H. Raza|Haider]]
* [[Abdul Kadar Khatri]] (1961 - 2019) [[Indian people|Indian]] Master Craftsman
|[[S.H. Raza|Raza]]
* [[Aditya Pande]] (born 1976), painter, sculptor, digital artist
|1922
* [[Aman Singh Gulati]] (born 2000),World's First Almond Artist
|2016
* [[Anil Kumar Dutta]] (1933-2006)
|
* [[Anjolie Ela Menon]] (born 1940), painter
|-
* [[Atul Dodiya]] (born 1959), painter
|[[Piraji Sagara|Piraji]]  
* [[B. Prabha]] (1933–2001), painter
|
* [[Badri Narayan]] (1929-2013), painter
|[[Piraji Sagara|Sagara]]
* [[Baiju Parthan]] (born 1956), painter
|1931
* [[Balan Nambiar]] (born 1937), sculptor, painter and research scholar
|2014
* [[Bapu (director)|Bapu]] (1933–2014), painter
|painter, sculptor
* [[Bharti Kher]] (born 1969), painter, sculptor and installation artist
|-
* [[Bhavna Mehta]] (born 1968), paper-cut artist
|[[Mohan Samant|Mohan]]
* [[Bholekar Srihari]] (1941-2018), painter, sculptor and printmaker
|
* [[Bhupen Khakkar]] (1934–2003), painter
|[[Mohan Samant|Samant]]
|1924
|2004
|
|-
|[[Francis Newton Souza|Francis]]
|[[Francis Newton Souza|Newton]]
|[[Francis Newton Souza|Souza]]
|1924
|2002
|
|-
|[[Bholekar Srihari|Srihari]]
|
|[[Bholekar Srihari|Bholekar]]
|1941
|2018
|painter, sculptor, printmaker
|-
|[[Y.G. Srimati|Srimati]]
|
|[[Y.G. Srimati|Y.G.]]
|1926
|2007
|painter, dancer
|-
|[[K.G. Subramanyan|Kalpathi]]
|[[K.G. Subramanyan|Ganpathi]]
|[[K.G. Subramanyan|Subramanyan]]
|1924
|2016
|
|-
|[[Anil Kumar Dutta|Anil]] 
|[[Anil Kumar Dutta|Kumar]]
|[[Anil Kumar Dutta|Dutta]]
|1933
|2006
|painter, writer
 
|-
|[[S. Rajam|Sundaram]]
|
|[[S. Rajam|Rajam]]  
|1919
|2010
|
|-
|[[B. Prabha|B.]]  
|
|[[B. Prabha|Prabha]]
|1933
|2001
|
 
|-
|[[Rajan Krishnan|Rajan]]
|
|[[Rajan Krishnan|Krishnan]]
|1933
|2001
|
 
|-
|[[Bhupen Khakkar|Bhupen]]
|
|[[Bhupen Khakkar|Khakkar]]
|1934
|2003
|
|-
|[[Abdul Kadar Khatri|Abdul]]
|[[Abdul Kadar Khatri|Kadar]]
|[[Abdul Kadar Khatri|Khatri]]
|1961
|2019
|master craftsmen, printmaker
|-
|[[M.F. Husain|Maqbool]]
|[[M.F. Husain|Fida]]
|[[M.F. Husain|Husain]]
|1915
|2011
|director, painter
|-
|[[Satish Gujral|Satish]] 
|
|[[Satish Gujral|Gujral]]
|1925
|2020
|
|-
|[[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde|Vasudeo]]
|[[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde|S.]]
|[[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde|Gaitonde]]
|1924
|2001
|
|-
|[[Badri Narayan|Badri]]
|
|[[Badri Narayan|Narayan]]
|1929
|2013
|illustrator, writer
|-
|[[Rabin Mondal|Rabin]]
|
|[[Rabin Mondal|Mondal]]
|1929
|2019
|
|-
|[[K. K. Menon|K.K.]]
|
|[[K. K. Menon|Menon]]
|1925
|1999
|
|-
|[[Srimati Lal|Srimati]]
|[[Srimati Lal|Priyadarshini]]
|[[Srimati Lal|Lal]]
|1959
|2019
|painter, poet
|-
|[[Zarina (artist)|Zarina]]  
|
|[[Zarina (artist)|Hashmi]]
|1937
|2020
|printmaker, sculptor
|-
|[[Pilloo Pochkhanawala|Pilloo]]
|
|[[Pilloo Pochkhanawala|Pochkhanawala]]
|1923
|1986
|sculptor
|-
|[[Gogi Saroj Pal|Gogi]]
|[[Gogi Saroj Pal|Saroj]]
|[[Gogi Saroj Pal|Pal]]
|1945
|2024
|
|-
|[[Mrinalini Mukherjee|Mrinalini]]
|
|[[Mrinalini Mukherjee|Mukherjee]]
|1949
|2015
|sculptor
|-
|[[Lalita Lajmi|Lalitha]]
|
|[[Lalita Lajmi|Lajmi]]
|1932
|2023
|
|-
|[[Latika Katt|Latika]]
|
|[[Latika Katt|Katt]]
|1948
|2025
|
|-
|[[Pratima Devi (painter)|Pratima]]
|
|[[Pratima Devi (painter)|Devi]]
|1893
|1969
|
|-
|[[Hema Upadhyay|Hema]]
|
|[[Hema Upadhyay|Upadhyay]]
|1972
|2015
|sculptor
|-
|[[Atasi Barua|Atasi]]
|
|[[Atasi Barua|Barua]]
|1921
|2016
|
|}
 
== Contemporary artists ==
 
* [[Dhruvi Acharya]] (born 1971), visual artist
* [[Ratnadeep Adivrekar]] (born 1974)
* [[Anurag Anand]] (born 1978), visual artist and writer
* [[Sekar Ayyanthole]] (born 1954)
* [[Bhuri Bai]] (1968), Bhil artist
* [[Bhuri Bai]] (1968), Bhil artist
* [[Bijan Choudhury]] (1931–2012), painter
* [[Madhuri Bhaduri]] (born 1958)
* [[Bikash Bhattacharjee]] (1940–2006)
* [[Dimpy Bhalotia]] (born 1987), street photographer
* [[Maya Burman]] (born 1971)
* [[Jogen Chowdhury]] (born 1939)
* [[Daku (artist)|Daku]], pseudonymous graffiti artist
* [[Daku (artist)|Daku]], pseudonymous graffiti artist
* [[Devajyoti Ray]] (born 1974)
* [[Edmund Thomas Clint]] (1976-1983) child prodigy who painted over 25,000 paintings during his life of 6 years 11 months
* [[Dhiraj Choudhury]] (1936-2018)
* [[Dhruvi Acharya]] (born 1971), visual artist
* [[Francis Newton Souza]] (1924-2002)
* [[Gargi Raina]] (born 1961), painter
* [[Gieve Patel]] (born 1940)
* [[Gogi Saroj Pal]] (born 1945)
* [[Gurpreet Singh Dhuri]] (born 1983)
* [[Jayant Parikh]] (born 1940)
* [[Jahar Dasgupta]] (born 1942), painter
* [[Jahar Dasgupta]] (born 1942), painter
* [[Jogen Chowdhury]] (born 1939)
* [[Vikash Maharaj]] (born 1957), artist
* [[John Wilkins (Indian artist)|John Wilkins]] (1927-1991)
* [[K.G. Subramanyan]] (1924–2016)
* [[Kailash Chandra Meher]] (born 1954), painter
* [[Kanu Desai]] (1907–1980)
* [[Karuna Sukka]] (born 1980), printmaker
* [[Kurchi Dasgupta]] (born 1974)
* [[Kurchi Dasgupta]] (born 1974)
* [[M R D Dattan]] (1935-2006)
* [[Shashikant Dhotre]] (born 1982), drawing, painter, installations
* [[M.F. Husain]] (1915–2011)
* [[Gurpreet Singh Dhuri]] (born 1983)
* [[Madhan (writer)|Madhan]] (born 1947)
* [[Atul Dodiya]] (born 1959), painter
* [[Madhuri Bhaduri]] (born 1958)
* [[Aman Singh Gulati]] (born 2000), world's first almond artist
* [[Manav Gupta]] (born 1967)  
* [[Manav Gupta]] (born 1967)
* [[Manjit Bawa]] (1941–2008)
* [[Shilpa Gupta]] (born 1976)
* [[Maya Burman]] (born 1971)
* [[Saba Hasan]] (born 1962) contemporary artist
* [[S. Jithesh]] (born 1974)
* [[Reena Saini Kallat]] (born 1973)
* [[Anish Kapoor]] (born 1954)
* [[Siddharth Katragadda]] (born 1972)
* [[Mohammed Yusuf Khatri]] (born 1967), Bagh printer
* [[Mohammed Yusuf Khatri]] (born 1967), Bagh printer
* [[Mohan Samant]] (1924–2004)
* [[Sanjay Khatri]] (born 1987), ballet dancer
* [[Neeraj Gupta]] (born 1969), sculpture artist
* [[Bharti Kher]] (born 1969), painter, sculptor and installation artist
* [[Nek Chand]] (1924-2015)
* [[Nandita Kumar]] (born 1981), new media artist
* [[Norman Douglas Hutchinson]] (1932–2010)
* [[Ananta Mandal]] (born 1983), watercolorist
* [[Paris Mohan Kumar]]
* [[Paris Mohan Kumar]]
* [[Madhan (writer)|Madhan]] (born 1947)
* [[Paresh Maity]] (born 1965), painter and sculptor
* [[Paresh Maity]] (born 1965), painter and sculptor
* [[Piraji Sagara]] (1931-2014)
* [[Ananta Mandal]] (born 1983), watercolorist
* [[Prafulla Dahanukar]] (1934-2014), painter
* [[Ravi Mandlik]] (born 1960), painter
* [[Kailash Chandra Meher]] (born 1954), painter
* [[Bhavna Mehta]] (born 1968), paper-cut artist
* [[Anjolie Ela Menon]] (born 1940), painter
* [[Amitabh Mitra]] (born 1955)
* [[Samir Mondal]] (born 1952), watercolourist
* [[N.K.P. Muthukoya]] (born 1941)
 
* [[Balan Nambiar]] (born 1937), sculptor, painter and research scholar
* [[Satyendra Pakhale]] (born 1967)
* [[Gogi Saroj Pal]] (born 1945)
* [[Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri]] (born 1983), photographer, film director
* [[Aditya Pande]] (born 1976), painter, sculptor, digital artist
* [[Jayant Parikh]] (born 1940)
* [[Baiju Parthan]] (born 1956), painter
* [[Gieve Patel]] (born 1940)
* [[Sudarsan Pattnaik]] (born 1977), sand artist
* [[Pranava Prakash]] (born 1979)
* [[Pranava Prakash]] (born 1979)
* [[Rabin Mondal]] (1929-2019)
* [[Gargi Raina]] (born 1961), painter
* [[Ram Chandra Shukla]] (1925-2016)
* [[Devajyoti Ray]] (born 1974)
* [[Ramkinkar Baij]] (1906–1980), painter and sculptor
* [[Sajitha R. Shankar]] (born 1967)
* [[Ratnadeep Adivrekar]] (born 1974)
* [[Suvigya Sharma]] (born 1983)
* [[Ravi Mandlik]] (born 1960), painter
* [[Ram Chandra Shukla]] (1925–2016)
* [[Reena Saini Kallat]] (born 1973)
* [[Vibhor Sogani]] (born 1967)
* [[Rupesh Patric]] (born 1979), charcoal sketches
* [[Karuna Sukka]] (born 1980), printmaker
* [[S. Jithesh]] (born 1974)
* [[Vivan Sundaram]] (born 1943), installation artist
* [[S. Rajam]] (1919-2010)
* [[K.R.Sunil]] (born 1975)
* [[S.H. Raza]] (1922-2016)
* [[Samir Mondal]] (born 1952), water colourist
* [[Satish Gujral]] (1925-2020)
* [[Sekar Ayyanthole]] (born 1954)
* [[Shashikant Dhotre]] (born 1982), drawing, painter, installations
* [[Shilpa Gupta]] (born 1976)
* [[Siddharth Katragadda]] (born 1972)
* [[Surekha (artist)|Surekha]], artist, video and photo installations
* [[Surekha (artist)|Surekha]], artist, video and photo installations
* [[Somalal Shah]] (1905-1994)
* [[Srimati Lal]] (1959-2019), artist and poet
* [[Y.G. Srimati]] (1926-2007), painter
* [[Suvigya Sharma]] (born 1983)
* [[Thukral & Tagra]] (born 1976, born 1979)
* [[Thukral & Tagra]] (born 1976, born 1979)
* [[Vasudeo S. Gaitonde]] (1924–2001), painter
* [[K. P. Thomas (artist)]] (born 1951)
* [[Vivan Sundaram]] (born 1943), installation artist
* [[Tom Vattakuzhy]] (born 1967)
* [[Yantr]]
 
* [[Sudarsan Pattnaik]] (born 1977) Sand Artist
==See also==
*[[Saba Hasan]] (born 1962) contemporary artist{{div col end}}
{{Portal|Biography|India|Lists|Visual arts}}
* [[List of Indian women artists]]
* [[List of most expensive Indian artists]]


==References==
==References==
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{{Artists by nationality}} Abanindra Maitra (born 1953) Sarod player and music director.
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This is a list of notable artists who were born in India and or have a strong association with India.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
First Middle Last Birth Death Notes
Nandalal Bose 1882 1966
Akbar Padamsee 1928 2020 painter, printmaker
Sunil Das 1939 2015
Manishi Dey 1909 1966
Mukul Chandra Dey 1895 1989 printmaker
Kalipada Ghoshal 1906 1995
T.U. Subramaniam 1924 1968 pseudonym Maniam
Benode Behari Mukherjee 1904 1980
Annada Munsi 1905 1985 painter, writer
Manu Munsi 1924 2009 painter, sculptor
Sobha Singh Naqqashi 1901 1986 director, illustrator
Satyajit Ray 1921 1992
Jamini Roy 1887 1972
Amrita Sher-Gil 1913 1941 Hungarian-Indian descent
P.M. Sreenivasan 1919 1983 pseudonym Silpi
S.G. Thakur Singh 1899 1976
Abanindranath Tagore 1871 1951
Gaganendranath Tagore 1867 1938
Rabindranath Tagore 1861 1941 pseudonym Bhanusimha
Raja Ravi Varma 1848 1906
Ramkinkar Baij 1906 1989 painter, sculptor
Sattiraju Lakshminarayana 1933 2014 pseudonym Bapu
Manjit Bawa 1941 2008
Bikash Bhattacharjee 1940 2006
Krishna Reddy 1925 2018 printmaker, sculptor
Nek Chand Saini 1924 2015 sculptor
Bijan Choudhury 1931 2012
Dhiraj Choudhury 1936 2018
Edmund Thomas Clint 1976 1983 child prodigy who painted over 25,000 paintings during his life of 6 years 11 months
Prafulla Dahanukar 1934 2014
M.R.D. Dattan 1935 2006 sculptor
Kanu Desai 1907 1980 director, illustrator
John Wilkins 1927 1991
Somalal Shah 1905 1994
Sayed Haider Raza 1922 2016
Piraji Sagara 1931 2014 painter, sculptor
Mohan Samant 1924 2004
Francis Newton Souza 1924 2002
Srihari Bholekar 1941 2018 painter, sculptor, printmaker
Srimati Y.G. 1926 2007 painter, dancer
Kalpathi Ganpathi Subramanyan 1924 2016
Anil Kumar Dutta 1933 2006 painter, writer
Sundaram Rajam 1919 2010
B. Prabha 1933 2001
Rajan Krishnan 1933 2001
Bhupen Khakkar 1934 2003
Abdul Kadar Khatri 1961 2019 master craftsmen, printmaker
Maqbool Fida Husain 1915 2011 director, painter
Satish Gujral 1925 2020
Vasudeo S. Gaitonde 1924 2001
Badri Narayan 1929 2013 illustrator, writer
Rabin Mondal 1929 2019
K.K. Menon 1925 1999
Srimati Priyadarshini Lal 1959 2019 painter, poet
Zarina Hashmi 1937 2020 printmaker, sculptor
Pilloo Pochkhanawala 1923 1986 sculptor
Gogi Saroj Pal 1945 2024
Mrinalini Mukherjee 1949 2015 sculptor
Lalitha Lajmi 1932 2023
Latika Katt 1948 2025
Pratima Devi 1893 1969
Hema Upadhyay 1972 2015 sculptor
Atasi Barua 1921 2016

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