Artists

Bhupen Khakhar


Born in Baroda, Khakhar grew up in Mumbai and received his B.A. there from Mumbai University before returning to Baroda in 1962. Back in Baroda he earned a Masters in art criticism from the Maharaja Sayajirao University in 1964. He died in 2003. Internationally acclaimed, his work has exhibited across the world, with solo shows at museums and galleries in Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Vancouver, Delhi and Mumbai, to name a few, along with numerous group exhibitions worldwide. He was also awarded several honors along the way, including the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship, in New York (1986); and the Indian Government’s Padma Shri in 1984, one of the country’s highest civilian awards.
WORK

You can't please all
by Bhupen Khakhar
1981

First Day in New York
by Bhupen Khakhar
1985

Man with bouquet of plastic flowers
by Bhupen Khakhar
1975

ESSAYS

The Tranquil Turbulence of Bhupen Khakhar

by  Sudhir Chandra

Using an oxymoron may be one way to grapple with the world created by Bhupen Khakhar. Compared to its early, relatively uncomplicated years, tenanted as it was by typical small-town men following their humdrum professions, that world has over the last two and a half decades become an increasingly -

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