List of Indian artists
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This is a list of notable artists who were born in India and or have a strong association with India.
| 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 |
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
- Madhuri Bhaduri (born 1958)
- Dimpy Bhalotia (born 1987), street photographer
- Maya Burman (born 1971)
- Jogen Chowdhury (born 1939)
- Daku, pseudonymous graffiti artist
- Jahar Dasgupta (born 1942), painter
- Vikash Maharaj (born 1957), artist
- Kurchi Dasgupta (born 1974)
- Shashikant Dhotre (born 1982), drawing, painter, installations
- Gurpreet Singh Dhuri (born 1983)
- Atul Dodiya (born 1959), painter
- Aman Singh Gulati (born 2000), world's first almond artist
- Manav Gupta (born 1967)
- Shilpa Gupta (born 1976)
- 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
- Sanjay Khatri (born 1987), ballet dancer
- Bharti Kher (born 1969), painter, sculptor and installation artist
- Nandita Kumar (born 1981), new media artist
- Paris Mohan Kumar
- Madhan (born 1947)
- Paresh Maity (born 1965), painter and sculptor
- Ananta Mandal (born 1983), watercolorist
- 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)
- Gargi Raina (born 1961), painter
- Devajyoti Ray (born 1974)
- Sajitha R. Shankar (born 1967)
- Suvigya Sharma (born 1983)
- Ram Chandra Shukla (1925–2016)
- Vibhor Sogani (born 1967)
- Karuna Sukka (born 1980), printmaker
- Vivan Sundaram (born 1943), installation artist
- K.R.Sunil (born 1975)
- Surekha, artist, video and photo installations
- Thukral & Tagra (born 1976, born 1979)
- K. P. Thomas (artist) (born 1951)
- Tom Vattakuzhy (born 1967)
