List of Indian artists
This is a list of notable artists who were born in India and or have a strong association with India.
- Nandalal Bose (1882–1966)
- Sunil Das (1939–2015)
- Manishi Dey (1909–1966)
- Mukul Chandra Dey (1895–1989)
- Kalipada Ghoshal (1906–1995)
- Maniam (1924–1968)
- Benode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980)
- Annada Munsi (1905–1985)
- Manu Munsi (1924–2009)
- Sobha Singh Naqqashi (1901–1986)
- Satyajit Ray (1921–1992)
- Jamini Roy (1887–1972)
- Amrita Sher-Gil (1913–1941)
- Silpi (1919–1983)
- S. G. Thakur Singh (1899–1976)
- Abanindranath Tagore (1871–1951)
- Gaganendranath Tagore (1867–1938)
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
- Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906)
Contemporary artists
A–M
- 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
- Ramkinkar Baij (1906–1980), painter and sculptor
- Bapu (1933–2014), painter
- Manjit Bawa (1941–2008)
- Madhuri Bhaduri (born 1958)
- Dimpy Bhalotia (born 1987), street photographer
- Bikash Bhattacharjee (1940–2006)
- Maya Burman (born 1971)
- Nek Chand (1924–2015)
- Bijan Choudhury (1931–2012), painter
- Dhiraj Choudhury (1936–2018)
- Jogen Chowdhury (born 1939)
- 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), painter
- Daku, pseudonymous graffiti artist
- Jahar Dasgupta (born 1942), painter * Vikash Maharaj born 1957 artist]]
- Kurchi Dasgupta (born 1974)
- M R D Dattan (1935–2006)
- Kanu Desai (1907–1980)
- Shashikant Dhotre (born 1982), drawing, painter, installations
- Gurpreet Singh Dhuri (born 1983)
- Atul Dodiya (born 1959), painter
- Anil Kumar Dutta (1933–2006)
- Vasudeo S. Gaitonde (1924–2001), painter
- Satish Gujral (1925–2020)
- Aman Singh Gulati (born 2000), world's first almond artist
- Manav Gupta (born 1967)
- Shilpa Gupta (born 1976)
- Saba Hasan (born 1962) contemporary artist
- M.F. Husain (1915–2011)
- Norman Douglas Hutchinson (1932–2010)
- S. Jithesh (born 1974)
- Reena Saini Kallat (born 1973)
- Anish Kapoor (born 1954)
- Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972)
- Bhupen Khakkar (1934–2003), painter
- Abdul Kadar Khatri (1961–2019), master craftsman
- Mohammed Yusuf Khatri (born 1967), Bagh printer
- Sanjay Khatri (born 1987), ballet dancer
- Bharti Kher (born 1969), painter, sculptor and installation artist
- Rajan Krishnan (1968–2016)
- Nandita Kumar (born 1981), new media artist
- Paris Mohan Kumar
- Srimati Lal (1959–2019), artist and poet
- 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
- K. K. Menon (1925-1999), painter
- Amitabh Mitra (born 1955)
- Rabin Mondal (1929–2019)
- Samir Mondal (born 1952), watercolourist
- N.K.P. Muthukoya (born 1941)
N–Z
- Balan Nambiar (born 1937), sculptor, painter and research scholar
- Badri Narayan (1929–2013), painter
- 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
- B. Prabha (1933–2001), painter
- Pranava Prakash (born 1979)
- Gargi Raina (born 1961), painter
- S. Rajam (1919–2010)
- Devajyoti Ray (born 1974)
- S.H. Raza (1922–2016)
- Piraji Sagara (1931–2014)
- Mohan Samant (1924–2004)
- Sajitha R. Shankar (born 1967)
- Somalal Shah (1905–1994)
- Suvigya Sharma (born 1983)
- Ram Chandra Shukla (1925–2016)
- Vibhor Sogani (born 1967)
- Francis Newton Souza (1924–2002)
- Bholekar Srihari (1941–2018), painter, sculptor and printmaker
- Y.G. Srimati (1926-2007), painter
- K.G. Subramanyan (1924–2016)
- 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)
- John Wilkins (1927–1991)
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