Famous Artists from India
Raise your brushes for a list of the most popular artists from India, listed alphabetically with photos when available. You might also be interested in famous artists from Japan and famous artists from Spain. For centuries, artists have been among the world's most important people, chronicling history and entertaining millions with works that stimulate intellects and emotions. Whether they're known for painting, sculpting, etching, or drawing, the famous Indian artists on this list have kept that tradition alive, creating renowned pieces of art that have been praised around the world and made marks in a variety of different media. Below, you can find useful information about these notable Indian artists.
Artists on this list include "The Father of Modern Indian Sculpture" Ramkinkar Baij and Indian painters like Satish Gujral and F.N. Souza.
This list answers the burning artistic questions, "Which famous artists are from India?" and "Who are the most well-known Indian artists?"
For more details on these modern and historic Indian artists, click on their names. If you're a fine art lover, use this list of celebrated Indian artists to discover some new paintings, sculptures, drawings and other works that you'll enjoy.- Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho (), was an Indian spiritual guru, philosopher, and ...more
- Dancing Girl
- Birthplace: Kolkata, India
- Nationality: India, British Raj
- Art Forms: Painting
Rabindranath Tagore ( (listen); born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), and also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist ...more - Boman Irani (born 2 December 1959) is an Indian theatre and film actor, voice artist and photographer of Irani descent, who works in Bollywood films. After making his film debut with the 2003 ...more
- Idries Shah (; Pashto: ادريس شاه, Urdu: ادریس شاه; 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي) and by the pen name Arkon ...more
- Autobiography, Mother India, Between the Spider & the Lamp
- Birthplace: Pandharpur, India
- Nationality: India
- Art Forms: Painting, Drawing
Maqbool Fida Husain better known as M. F. Husain(17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian painter. Regarded as India’s most prolific, saleable, and world-renowned artist He was a modern ...more - Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter, photographer and filmmaker who is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay ...more
- Lakshminarayana Shankar (born 26 April 1950), also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar, is an Indian violinist, singer, and composer. In the 1970s he formed the band Shakti with British guitarist John ...more
- Dilip Purushottam Chitre (17 September 1938 – 10 December 2009) was one of the foremost Indian poets and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilingual ...more
- Rupesh Xavier Patric is a self-trained artist. His medium is the charcoal sketch. He lives in Bangalore, India.
- Analgesic Studies 01, Carbon Milk 9, Bon Voyage (flesh
- Birthplace: Mumbai, India
- Nationality: India
- Art Forms: Painting
Jitish Kallat (born 1974) is an Indian contemporary artist. He currently lives and works in Mumbai, India. Kallat's work includes painting, photography, collage, sculpture, installations and ...more - Aziz (born 1946) is an Indian artist and painter from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. He has pioneered the use of plaster of paris on canvas along with oil paints for a three-dimensional effect. His ...more
- Cheenu Pillai is a self-taught artist from chennai, India who blends European expressionism with dravidian themes.
- Yamini Reddy (born 1 September 1982) is Indian classical dancer, a kuchipudi exponent.
- Dabboo Ratnani is an Indian fashion photographer, known for his annual calendar which has become a highly notable showbiz event in India since its first publication in 1999. He is the cover ...more
- Adyar K. Lakshman (16 December 1933 – 19 August 2014) was a noted Indian Bharatnatyam dancer, choreographer and guru.
- Thakur Dalip Singh is a renowned and internationally recognised Indian photographer. He is originally specialized in natural and wildlife photography but later turned to aerial photography of ...more
- Byomakesh Mohanty (17 November 1957, Cuttack, Orissa, India – 14 June 2010) was an Indian artist and academic. After completing his science studies and graduating from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, ...more
- Reema Bansal is an Indian painter. Bansal took up painting at the age of three when she was encouraged by her family and enthused by her teachers. She persisted with the brush despite her neuropathy ...more
- Ratnadeep Gopal Adivrerkar (born 13 November 1974 in Mumbai) is a contemporary artist from India. He has had several important solo exhibitions including one at NUS Museum, Singapore, Galerie Sylvia ...more
- Pranava Prakash (Hindi: प्रणव प्रकाश; born in Patna in 1979) is an Indian artist working in neopop style. He is known for helping to create the "tuchchart" style with a group of Delhi artists, which ...more
- Lala Deen Dayal (Hindi: लाला दीन दयाल) 1844 – 1905; (also written as 'Din Dyal' and 'Diyal' in his early years) famously known as Raja Deen Dayal) was an Indian photographer. His career began in the ...more
- Benode Behari Mukherjee (7 February 1904 – 11 November 1980) was an Indian artist from West Bengal state. Mukherjee was one of the pioneers of Indian modern art and a key figure of Contextual ...more
- CITY: Memory, Dreams, Desire
- Birthplace: Surendranagar district, India
- Nationality: India
- Art Forms: Painting
Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh (born 16 February 1937) is a painter, poet and art critic from Gujarat, India. He was awarded the Padmashri in 1983 and Padmabhushan in 2014 for his contribution in field of ...more - Les Champs, Surya Namaskar, Dhristi
- Birthplace: Madhya Pradesh, India
- Nationality: India
- Art Forms: Painting
Sayed Haider "S. H." Raza (22 February 1922 – 23 July 2016) was an Indian painter who lived and worked in France since 1950, while maintaining strong ties with India.He was a renowned Indian artist. ...more