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Hong Viet Dung
Hong Viet Dung was born in 1962 in Hanoi

and graduated from the College of Fine Arts
in 1984. His works are characterized by the
use of sepia or other pale colors. His subjects
express calmness and contemplation, usually
standing in solitude, sometimes holding a
simple object. Dung is a devout Buddhist.
There is so much peace in his paintings that
you could almost meditate in front of them.
His works capture only the essentials, leaving
the viewers to their own imagination and
reflections. More recently, Dung has been
painting landscapes. Often large canvases in
pale monochromes, they wonderfully capture
the beauty and calm of rural Vietnam.
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Le Thanh Son
Le Thanh Son is one of the senior most
Vietnamese contemporary artists who enjoys
an international reputation. Colours and
textures burst out of his canvas, and the simple
landscapes of his homeland are transformed by
the artist to magical and impressive imageries
and reflections of nature.

Manu Parekh
Veteran modern artist Manu Parekh is one of

the few old-timers whose style and artistic
content have remained unchanged over the
years despite the changing socio-political
circumstances around him. What has also not
changed is his love for the Hindu holy city of
Varanasi (Benares). “My work has not changed
with time, I am still working on the ‘Benares
Series’ - the one which I started 20 years ago. I
am carrying it forward. The spiritual ambience
of the town moves me. It is full of religious and
cultural nuances."
The artist, who was born in Ahmedabad in

1939 and studied in the J.J. School of Art in
Mumbai, feels India is an artist’s delight
because of its “cultural diversity”.
“The country is full of different kinds of culture

and colour. It all seeps into my work, along with
faith, which is the essence of my art,” said
Parekh

M F Husain
M. F. Husain is the most recognised figure of

modern and contemporary Indian art; he
joined the Progressives Artists Group in
1948. A self-taught artist, Husain moved to
Mumbai at an early age and began his artistic
career by painting the billboards for cinemas.
He recalls, "We were paid barely four or six
annas per square foot. That is, for a 6x10 feet
canvas, we earned a few rupees. And apart
from the New Theatre distributor, the others
did not pay us at all. As soon as I earned a
little bit I used to take off for Surat, Baroda
and Ahmedabad to paint landscapes".

Nguyen Thanh Binh
“In my work space takes up most of the

canvas, composition is considered the most
important point. Tones of color are mild and
fairly sad. Very few people and objects are in
a painting. This is because I would like to
give my
viewers a sense that the artist’s adventure is
always a lonely one” - Nguyen Thanh Binh
Nguyen Thanh Binh is perhaps unique

among Vietnamese artists as after many
years he returned to his Asian tools by
conducting a study of oriental philosophy and
aesthetics.
Although fond of many Europeans, notably

Klimt and Gris, he felt he had to understand
himself as an Asian if he was to produce
paintings which satisfied him and his feelings
as a Vietnamese. The philosopher
Khong Tu, and especially his book Kinh Dich,
led Binh into the ways of Daoism and Zen,
which are now heavily reflected in his work.

Do Duy Tuan
Born in 1954, Do Duy Tuan graduated from

the Hue Fine Arts College. He has
participated in many national and
international group shows and exhibitions
and has won numerous awards.
Tuan's work is full of reminiscences and far-
away memories of distant lands and
belongings, all depicted in a captivating and
understated elegant format.
Textiles and fabrics are interwoven into the
compositions adding depth and character.
They are juxtaposed with flat soft
brushstrokes and colours used for the the
main subject. His work is controlled and
measured. Do Duy Tuan's paintings are very
beautiful.

A K Patnaik
A K Patnaik is an emotionally sensitive

person and his paintings appear to be a
direct reflection of his personality. The
images that emerge from his paintings seem
to have tremendous depth in their characters
in spite of apparently mundane situations.
The artist feels that the true depth of feelings
surfaces in emotionally moving
circumstances and not necessarily in trying
situations. There is intangibility in Patnaik’s
works, of words left unsaid, a certain
sensitivity or sharing of feelings, and his
technique and choice of colours and textures
accentuate that. He appears to be in full
control of the medium and is confident of bold
strokes and experimentations to bring out his
feelings on canvas.

Dinh Quan
Dinh Quan is well known for his elegant

depictions with lacquer on wood. This is a
craft native to Vietnam and Dinh Quan uses it
beautifully in his work. A piece of wood is
treated first and then the artist applies as
many as thirty layers of lacquer to produce
his work. Quan's work is beautiful, delicate
and impressive. His creations are collected
internationally.

Buwa Shete
Born in 1960, Buwa is an artist with a

penchant for the feminine form. He
completed a degree in applied arts from
Pune in 1984. He has developed his own
style which has imprints of his rural
upbringing juxtaposed with modern urban
values. The female protagonist is at the focus
of most of his canvases. His contemporary
modernist figures are done in rough strong
brush strokes. The characters have an
ethereal existence entrenched in a world of
fantasy far removed from the real world.
Buwa has won the national award and also
an award from London Advertising in 1997.
He has participated in several solo and group
shows and his paintings are in collections in
India and abroad.

T. Vaikuntam
T. Vaikuntam hails from Andhra Pradesh, in

South India, and draws a lot of inspiration for
his work from the rural areas of the state. The
men and women of his village have often
been depicted in his work. Women, in
particular, are frequent subjects for his works.
The love for this subject can be traced back
to his childhood, when he used to be
fascinated by the impersonations of women
characters by the male artists of the theatre
groups that traveled to, and performed in his
village.
He portrays women as sensual and
voluptuous. The colours used to paint women
give them a vibrant and decorative, look. The
male form appears remarkably calm, with a
sense of humour. His work has a distinct rural
flavour. In his work, he uses only primary
colours. Most of his work is in tempera and
watercolour, on paper.

Jayasri Burman
Jayasri Burman was born in an aesthetically

inclined Bengali family in 1960. Her uncle
Sakti Burman is a renowned Bengali painter.
Jayasri graduated in Fine Arts from the Kala
Bhavan, Santiniketan and Visual College of
Art, Calcutta. At the insistence of her uncle
she went to Paris and studied print-making
under Monsieur Ceizerzi. The imagery in her
work has a dream-like and lyrical quality with
a unique sensitivity which, although inspired
by the Indian folk element, retains a quality of
refreshing candour and reflective honesty.
She manages very successfully to weave the
decorative and design element of the folk
idiom into the intricate patterns of her canvas,
without losing the natural charm and naivete
of her work, which is uniquely her own.

Ramesh Gorjala
A talented, upcoming artist, Ramesh Gorjala

paints Indian mythological figures and
themes with detail and sensitivity. For
Gorjala, myth seems to be unfold into
endless narratives and emerges into the
forms of Hanuman, Vishnu or Buddha, often
symbolic of protection and heroism. He
completed his B.F.A. (Painting) from J.N.T.U.,
Hyderabad, India. Gorjala received the
"Mahatma Gandhi Birth Centenary Memorial
Award" for the year 2000 from Victoria
Technical Institute ( V.T.I.), Chennai. He has
held several group and solo shows
internationally and in India.

Phan Thu Trang
Talented artist Phan Thu

Trang was born in Hanoi in 1981 and
has been winning awards as a child artist
from the age of five. A
graduate from the Theatre and Cinema
University, Hanoi, Trang’s stylized and
elegant depictions of landscapes and
sceneries have appealed to art collectors
around the world.
The use of unusual pastel colours and flat

broad controlled strokes and her constant
experimentation with compositions and
different unique moods created on the
canvas, lends a special freshness and pride
to her paintings.
Her work brings out the inner joy and beauty

in us and invariably puts a smile on the
viewer’s face.

Nguyen Minh
Born in 1971 in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, Minh

graduated in 2000 from the Hanoi Fine Art
College. He grew up in the northern
Vietnamese countryside and the beauty of
his surroundings are captured in a raw,
passionate and emotional style on all his
canvases. Minh focuses on his favourite
themes of Vietnam countryside - thatched
cottages, stacks of golden straw,
mysterious village gates, leisurely standing
boats, vibrant flowering trees and blue calm
skies.
His feelings are sincere and this helps
create poetic scenery in his works. Strong
passionate brush strokes and vivid textures
transport us into a colourful romantic world
of the artist’s imagination and create
appealing and mesmerizing paintings. His
work appeals to a wide range of art
collectors and are admired and purchased
by an international audience.

Nguyen Minh Phuoc
Born in 1973 in Hanoi, Nguyen Minh

Phuoc graduated from the Hanoi Fine
Art Institute in 1997. Inspired by his
travels to Buddhist cultures, Phuoc
depicts the devotion and discipline of
Buddhist monks in a very appealing
artistic style.
Fine intricate details on

the monks and their robes and attires
contrast beautifully with the hazy
brushed over textures in the
background. This tends to put the
monks into focus as well as their
journeys for the search of fulfillment.
The paintings are serene and very

beautiful and exude warmth and a
sense of respect and understanding of
the monks' lives as well as the artist's
journey into the search of higher stages of
life.

Umakant Tawade
A young and budding talent in the world of

Indian art, Umakant Tawade has already
made his name as a contemporary figurative
painter to be reckoned with. Fresh out of the
Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art in 2002, armed
with a Bachelor's Degree, Tawade has
already become comfortable on the Mumbai
exhibition circuit and regularly shows his
works. Umakant has participated in several
group exhibitions, including the prestigious
Bombay Art Society show in 1999. The artist
is best known for his series of paintings that
depict figures, with extremely expressive
faces that show each one's distinct and
individual characteristics. The central monk-
like figures seem to be involved in absorbing
relationships with the others around them as
well as with their environments. Tawade's
lines are strong and insistent and his
canvases ring with predominantly dark
browns and ochres but do occasionally
reveal bright patches of colour in the clothing
or through a window.

Mousumi Biswas
Mousumi completed her Masters in Fine Arts

(Painting) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharti,
Santiniketan in 2005 and in 2003 Bachelor of
Visual Art (Painting) from Govt. College of Art
and Craft, Kolkata. She has had several
group and solo shows internationally. In
2005, she won the Kolkata Art Foundation
Award and the ‘Rathin Maitra Award’ from
Govt. College of Art and Craft in 2003.
"In my works I juxtapose multiple images. I

always try to make a visual equation or
chemistry between different images. But most
of the time I try to make a hopeful result from
them. I love to paint the spirit of living objects
like flying birds or colorful flowers".

Binoy Verghese
Born in Koothattukulam (Kerala), India, 1966,

Binoy qualified with a National Diploma in
Fine Arts, R.L.V. College of Fine Arts, Kerala.
Binoy’s work embodies a challenge and
redemption as he raises his voice through his
paint brush against the traditionally held
views like body as the abode of soul or black
is ugly. He also challenges the media images
of women as ‘timeless’ beauties, by
redeeming his protagonists and putting them
back where they ‘belong’. A realistic
appearance counter balanced by a dreamy
coding outlines Binoy’s photo-like imagery.
An empathetic person himself, his works
impart a distinctively humane and
compassionate experience. He has received
several awards to his credit including the
National Academy of Arts, New Delhi, a
fellowship from the Madhavan Nair
Foundation, Kochi and a scholarship from the
Arnawaz- Vasudev Charitable Trust and the
Artist of the Month award by the Max Muller
Bhavan, Chennai. He has held several one-
man shows and has participated in many
national and international group exhibitions.
Binoy has traveled widely for artists’ camps in
India and abroad. His most recent success
has been a critically acclaimed solo show in
New York.

Farhad Hussain
Born 1975 in Jamshedpur, India, Farhad

completed his B.F.A in Painting from Kala
Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan
in 2003 and M.F.A in Painting from
M.S.University, Baroda in 2005. He has
participated in many solo and group shows
nationally and internationally in Singapore and
in Hong Kong in 2006. Farhad received the
Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship from
M.S.University, Baroda in 2004. He was also
awarded the most promising artist by India
Habitat Centre in 2006.

Pradeep Mishra
Pradeep Mishra draws on the natural world

for the subjects of his paintings. Animals,
birds and plants, as the artist’s main choice of
subjects, portray his environmental concerns
and his sensitivity towards the effects of
present ecological imbalances. The deep
intensity shown in his subject’s eyes, animal
or human, blatantly displays their discontent.
The fiery red colour that often fills up the
background in Mishra’s canvases, adds to the
defiant nature of his content. Born in 1977 in
Tumsar, Maharashtra, Mishra completed his
Bachelor’s degree in Painting from the Sir J.J.
School of Art in 2002, followed by his
Master’s degree from the same institution, in
2004. After his graduation, Mishra was
selected for the residency program at Khoj,
New Delhi, in the same year.

Madhu V
Born in 1976 in Kochi, Kerela, Madhu V

completed his BFA in Painting in 1998 at the
College of Fine Arts , Thiruvananthapuram.
He has participated in several group and solo
shows. In this series of work, he introduces
an almost self-contained object-world
comprised of an assortment of tools,
implements and organic matter that suggest
another, now mostly forgotten sense of time
where the laboring body might still have had
some sense of continuity with the cycles of
the natural world and its seasons, and where
the social habitat was likewise attuned. The
objects themselves are diverse, and draw
upon a limited but varied inventory of images
that the artist has acquired and put together
over the years.

Revati Sharma Singh
Born in Himachal Pradesh, Revati’s academic

pursuits have exposed her to the ethos of big
cities like Delhi, Mumbai,Singapore and
London, and have shaped her trajectory as an
artist.
The first Indian woman to have her own solo at

the Kings Road Gallery in London,Revati’s
works reflect the metamorphosis in her thought
process and are an amalgamation of heartfelt
thoughts, strikingcolours, bold strokes and the
play of textures. Be it her live installations like
‘Toilet Maze’ or ‘Mera Desha Mahaan?' or her
seamless transition onto the canvas, which she
successfully achieves without employing any
gimmick.
The complete unselfconsciousness and lack of

pretentiousness in her work appears to stem
from the artist herself and the down-to-earth
quality that resonates from her.From idyllic
landscapes to scratching the façade of the
Indian social fabric, this thinking artist’s work
transcends thecommonplace.
Her canvas is an exploration of her milieu, an

endless odyssey which showcases the
experiential realities of her life, leaving the art
world mesmerized and craving for more.

Ratnakar Ojha
"Most times expressions of my portraits are

pathos. But I use bright and unnatural colours
to highlight joyful moods and exuberance.
Colours are life of a painting and I use
maximum hue to create depth in my work."
Ojha's trademark is vibrant colour and

figurative work not to mention the reflection of
extremes of emotion. He has depicted
women in a pensive mood, their melancholy
evident in their slanting eyes and inward
gaze. Born in a village in the Keonjhar district
of Orissa in 1957, one of his strong
influences was his grandmother. "She used
to make clay dolls for us to play. She also
encouraged me to do something about my
interest in drawing and paintings" reminisces
Ojha. Besides, the natural surroundings of
his village in Orissa reinforced his use of
dramatic colours in his paintings. He studied
at the Government College of Art and Crafts,
Orissa, at the Indira Kala Sangeet University
and at the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai.

J M S Mani
The simple, rustic folk of the Deccan Plateau

in South India, with strong Dravidian features,
are the subjects of J.M.S. Mani's paintings.
His art is an amalgamation of Indian culture
with Occidental Western formalism. His
figures are modeled in three-dimensional
form, with bold brushwork, similar in style to
those of the impressionists.
Mani chooses to depict his characters, the

balloon seller, the women with a rooster, in a
simple and uncluttered manner. They narrate
an untold tale; a tale that tells of the origins of
an entire race. Though seemingly simple,
Mani's images too, are representative of an
entire civilization. The pulsating colours in his
paintings offset the dark skin of his
characters, creating a sense of drama in his
compositions. And it is his colours and
compositions which are expressive, rather
than the figures themselves.

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Hong Viet Dung was born in 1962 in Hanoi

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Veteran modern artist Manu Parekh is one of

The artist, who was born in Ahmedabad in

“The country is full of different kinds of culture

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M. F. Husain is the most recognised figure of

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“In my work space takes up most of the

Nguyen Thanh Binh is perhaps unique

Although fond of many Europeans, notably

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Born in 1954, Do Duy Tuan graduated from

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A K Patnaik is an emotionally sensitive

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Dinh Quan is well known for his elegant

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Born in 1960, Buwa is an artist with a

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T. Vaikuntam hails from Andhra Pradesh, in

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Jayasri Burman was born in an aesthetically

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A talented, upcoming artist, Ramesh Gorjala

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Talented artist Phan Thu

The use of unusual pastel colours and flat

Her work brings out the inner joy and beauty

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Born in 1971 in Bac Ninh, Vietnam, Minh

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Born in 1973 in Hanoi, Nguyen Minh

Fine intricate details on

The paintings are serene and very

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A young and budding talent in the world of

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Mousumi completed her Masters in Fine Arts

"In my works I juxtapose multiple images. I

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Born in Koothattukulam (Kerala), India, 1966,

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Born 1975 in Jamshedpur, India, Farhad

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Pradeep Mishra draws on the natural world

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Born in 1976 in Kochi, Kerela, Madhu V

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Born in Himachal Pradesh, Revati’s academic

The first Indian woman to have her own solo at

The complete unselfconsciousness and lack of

Her canvas is an exploration of her milieu, an

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"Most times expressions of my portraits are

Ojha's trademark is vibrant colour and

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The simple, rustic folk of the Deccan Plateau