Artist Profile

The Extinction Archive project by artist Kulpreet Singh, produced by KNMA on the view of India Art Fair 2026, depicts animals and plants at peril and spans over 900 endangered species, painted on pesticide-dipped rice paper, making the magnitude and accumulation of what is vanishing clear. This show has attracted the attention of art lovers

On This Day Jogen Chowdhury (born 16th February 1939 is an eminent Indian artist considered one of the most important and seminal figures in the history of postcolonial Indian Art. Jogen knows his painting bonded to Partition, the landscape, folk tales, and figurative and political injustice-motivated compositions. He was born and brought up in an

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like” David Alan Harvey As a medium, photography has always maintained its ‘photojournalistic’ ‘news photography’ nature. But Tamil photojournalist and activist Palani Kumar, who uses photography as a tool to give a voice to the ‘voiceless’, sees it beyond its aesthetic appeal and uses it

The artistic questions posed in “Like Gold”, a collateral project of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, such as Cop Shiva’s Being Gandhi, are anything but static depictions; instead, they represent a rigorous re-negotiation of the Indian story. The artworks of “Cop Shiva,” a photographer-artist who works as a police officer during the day, navigate the bureaucracy and

In Manjot Kaur’s paintings, the lush, liminal world interprets the Indian miniature tradition and seeks novel ways to present it, producing a new lexicon and visual delight. As we know, painting is the art of seeing, and it enlarges and broadens the viewer’s world when engaged with. This is achieved in Kaur’s painting through translating

The Florence Biennale featured Indian artist Vinita Dasgupta’s work Metamorphosis that dwells on the man-nature dichotomy, for the overarching theme of Light and Darkness.   The relationship between the woman and the tree as nurturers and protectors has perhaps not been emphasized enough in our urban settings. Delhi-based Bengali artist, Vinita Dasgupta brings the focus