India Art Fair 2023

Indian artists have been a presence in the global art market for the better part of the twentieth century. Raja Ravi Varma, Amrita Sher-Gil, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, S.H. Raza, Tyed Mehta, F.N. Souza, and M.F. Husain

From 9 to 12 February 2023, the NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi will host the India Art Fair, the nation's leading platform for presenting modern and contemporary art from India and South Asia

Taking place annually in India's capital, New Delhi, the fair celebrates modern-day South Asia, combining cutting-edge contemporary visual art with modern masters and vernacular artistic traditions

Winner of India Art Fair and BMW India led 'The Future is Born of Art' Commission is Devika Sundar. In her design for the new BMW X7, Devika imagines a future where art, science and fiction meet and blur boundaries. With a grand presence and a aura of freedom, the new BMW X7 makes for a perfect canvas for

“We are progressing into a new digital reality,” says the multitalented Varun Desai, an artist who works across a range of mediums, from electronic music production and engineering to creative coding and installation art. With an extraordinary mind

Designer and graphic artist, Mira Felicia Malhotra, aka Kohla, has the gift of colour. And in her bold feminist pop-art, women shine bright, together celebrating their unique identities with joy and confidence. Extraordinarily versatile and multitalented

Gaurav Ogale is a digital artist with a love for a time gone by. In his video and multimedia works — often in the form of short narrative films, published on social media and full of surreal juxtapositions — he harnesses the “unexplainable power of nostalgia”

Arts instructor and freelance curator Shaleen Wadhwana. Her curatorial work focuses on artistic reactions to current societal challenges as well as meta-narratives in world history. Her planned 2022 exhibits, The Sindhu Project: An Enigma of Roots at Exhibit 320 in Delhi and The Second Responder

Anoushka Mirchandani, a young painter and artist from India who now resides in the US, creates intimate portraits of what it's like to be a woman in the modern world. Her figurative landscapes have numerous opaque patterns that serve as a nod to her patchwork identity as an artist, an Indian, an immigrant, a woman, reminding

In his works, Tito applies a language of realism that alternates between the circumstances of being from another place and confronting the culture of his familial heritage. His work is incredibly vibrant and immensely allegorical

In his works, Tito applies a language of realism that alternates between the circumstances of being from another place and confronting the culture of his familial heritage. His work is incredibly vibrant and immensely allegorical

Prashant Pandey disrupts conventional reasoning when it comes to methods of viewing discarded objects in order to revive perspectives of everyday life. Pandey disrupts the utilitarian cycle of daily life with his use of recycled

Bhuri Bai belongs to the Bhil tribe in Pitol, Madhya Pradesh and she was the first woman from her tribe to take up painting against all convention. She painted at home while working as a construction worker, gradually covering the walls of her home

Arpita Akhanda was born in Cuttack, Odisha, in 1992 into a family of artists who had emigrated from Bangladesh to India before the partition. She received her degree in painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, in 2017

With his powerful output and virulent imagery, T. Venkanna has established himself as one of the most innovative, versatile, and intriguing painters of his generation. Venkanna's artistic style is unconstrained and as a result shifts its avatars

Yamini Nayar combines photography, sculpture, and architecture to produce intricate visual riddles that ultimately take the shape of photographic records. Her pieces begin with instinctively constructed handcrafted sculptures

Anju Dodiya is a renowned artist from Mumbai who is known for her sensitive "fictional self-portraits" that address the terrifying act of creation. Dodiya received her degree in painting from the Sir JJ School of Art in 1986

Manjunath Kamath creates art in a diverse range of media, including clay, digital art, painting, and drawing. His artwork is influenced by a variety of cultural references, including the sculptures, frescoes, and carvings in the basadis

Contemporary Malaysian artist Anne Samat uses techniques from Southeast Asian weaving and textile arts to create her vibrant and totemic pieces. Samat produces technically challenging and visually stunning sculpted wall

Rina Banerjee is well known for her enormous sculptures and installations composed of materials from all over the world. Her work focuses on the fragmented identities, traditions, and cultures that are common in diasporic societies

Mayur and Tushar Vayeda, brothers and artists, were born and raised in the Warli village of Ganjad in rural Maharashtra. There, they were exposed to Warli folklore, rituals, and ceremonial Warli paintings

Burman is a painter and lithographer whose work features vibrant colours and elements of folklore and fantasy. The complexity of Burman's characters, inspired from old European and Indian cultural values

Viraj Khanna's upbringing in an environment rich with art, particularly textiles and embroidery, has influenced the way he views and creates artifacts. In order to communicate specific emotions, ideas, or perspectives

For Sri Lankan Hema Shironi, a multidisciplinary artist, the key focus of her works are her community bonds and relationships. The artist, who now lives in Killinochchi, says that her art focuses on human and universal aspects and showcases cultural diversity.

Delhi-born Shivani Aggarwal completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from College of Art, New Delhi in 1996 and her MA (Cert.) painting from Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK in 2003 supported by the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship.

Abir Karmakar, a Spotlight artist is known for using mundane items that speak a unique story. The artist’s work as a painter is built on long years of practice. His journey as an artist has been a long and arduous one

Young Debashish Paul, the India Art Fair artist-in-residence, grew up seeing his sisters and sisters-in-law doing what normal village women in Bengal do: sew, stitch and, most important, play dress up. At Phulia village in West Bengal's Nadia district

The peeling layers of paint on a ship echo the philosophy of Sunil Gawde, a contemporary artist. Born and brought up in Mumbai, the 1980 graduate from the JJ School of Art took up a job at the Bombay Port Trust

Lakshmi Madhavan is a conceptual artist who uses Kerala's textile tradition to weave a thread between the present and the future. As an artist, Lakshmi continually changes her mediums and methods as her environment changes

The works of Awdhesh Tamrakar address many of the problems that plague and define our day, including migrations, searches for home, identity, and belonging; untold stories, silent histories, and especially those of illiterate

Rakhi Peswani, an artist and art instructor, investigates the connection between stitching and drawing in her work. By combining the traditions of minimalism and figurative art with weaving and sewing to create intricate forms and ideas

Chandan Bez Baruah is an Assamese artist who excels in woodcuts and printmaking. He completed his BFA in Printmaking from Government Art College Guwahati, Assam, and MFA in Printmaking from Visva-Bharati University Santiniketan

Firi Rahman is a Sri Lankan artist and an animal enthusiast whose works navigates the complex relationship of human beings and of the species in their natural environs. In a world of constant change and flux

Avijit Dutta incorporates his own emotions that he drew up in his search for human expressions into his art which is realistic and figurative. Using his own special style and compositions with a minimal colour palette

Vikram Goyal is a Delhi based artist who continues to challenge the traditional notions of spaces. His work defies the timeworn definition of utility as he creates free flowing masterpieces. By doing so he challenges the conventional notion of symmetry and function

Rid Burman is a unique amalgamation of a high fashion photographer and an artist in a country which offers him something new everyday. Burman talks about growing up in a home where art in its various forms was part

Senaka Senanayake is a Sri Lankan artist recognized as one of the region's prominent living artists. Deemed a child prodigy - he held his first international one-man exhibition at the age of ten, in New York