Artist Profile

Digvijay Nikam Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, born in 1962, is a British-Nigerian artist exploring the issues of cultural identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism through his works in today’s globalized world. He was nominated for the Turner prize in 2004, commissioned to create an installation on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth in 2010, and was elected as a […]

Prachi Sahasrabudhe  Born in 1970, Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian- American Visual artist working consistently in the  contemporary art field for more than two decades. Her conscious practice in painting, drawing, printmaking, enforces the artistic expression to evoke recurring conflicts, injustice, and social unrest through the histories. Her paintings represent elements of mapping and architecture,

Abhishek Dixit Krishnaji Howlaji Ara was born in 1914 in Bolarum near secunderbad. Because of his humble antecedents, his initial days of life were full of struggles. He lost his mother when he was just three years old and his father remarried when he was seven years old, no doubt it left a painful wound

Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Nandlal Bose’s name is prominent among the artists who contributed the most to shaping modern Indian art. At a time when western art had a strong influence on modern art in Bengal, Nandlal Bose differed from the rest and brought an Indian touch to local art. In the beginning, Nandlal only made

Ved Prakash Bhardwaj Through their art, an artist liberates life from its constraints. The more we learn about life as humans, the more perplexed we become. An artist attempts to clear up this ambiguity in their work. In this endeavor, one attempts to reach those distant meanings of life that are beyond the scope of

Abhishek Kumar ‘Anyone to whom equality is integral is feminist’ — Sonia Khurana Sonia Khurana is a contemporary Indian artist who works across various mediums including video, photography, performance, and installation. Khurana is regarded as one of the leading contemporary artists in India and her work continues to push boundaries and challenge the status quo.

Manjeera Mourning itself becomes an alienated task in societies torn apart by constant war and strife; and this is the gap that Colombian visual artist and sculptor Doris Salcedo wishes to address. Her works, which often utilise mundane everyday objects that gain profound significance in the context of war and the trauma it produces, are

The Pakistani-American artist currently has a groundbreaking feminist public installation on display in New York While the miniature is a long-standing motif of her formidable oeuvre, there is certainly nothing minuscule about the stature of acclaimed Pakistani-American visual artist Shahzia Sikander in the art world. In fact, the 54-year-old’s most recent public project could definitely

Manjeera “I believe that all women should like their bodies and use them as tools of seduction” -Ghada Amer Stitch by stitch, Ghada Amer takes charge and produces artistic works that aim to create an aesthetic language specific to women, reclaiming their bodies from the male gaze and reinterpreting their existing relationship with religion, society