RABINDRANATH TAGORE | GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE | ABANINDRANATH TAGORE | B.C. LAW | NANDALAL BOSE | SURENDRANATH GANGULY | INDU GUPTA | JAMINI ROY | RATHINDRANATH TAGORE | B.C. SANYAL | RAM KINKAR BAIJ | PROSANTO ROY | AMRITA SHER-GIL | CHITTOPRASAD BHATTACHARYA | M.F. HUSAIN | SOMNATH HORE | ABDUL AZIZ RAIBA | F.N. SOUZA | REBA HORE | RABIN MONDAL | BHUPEN KHAKKAR | GANESH HALOI | GANESH PYNE | ARPITA SINGH | SUNIL DAS | JOGEN CHOWDHURY | BIKASH BHATTACHARJEE | MANJIT BAWA | MADHVI PAREKH | AMITAVA | SAKTI BURMAN | JANGARH SINGH SHYAM | JAYASRI BURMAN | PARESH MAITY
This exhibition brings together a dynamic and wide-ranging assembly of artists whose practices trace the shifting contours of modern Indian art. Spanning early 20th-century revivalist aspirations to late-century pluralisms, the exhibition reflects how artists continually redefined tradition, form, and identity in response to their changing worlds.
Anchored in movements such as the Bengal Revival, led by Abanindranath Tagore, and extending to the assertive modernisms of the Bombay Progressives, the exhibition features seminal figures including Gaganendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Amrita Sher-Gil, Ramkinkar Baij, and F.N. Souza. It also showcases the lyrical figuration of Jogen Chowdhury and Arpita Singh, the narrative sensibilities of Bhupen Khakhar and Manjit Bawa, and the visionary folk-modern synthesis seen in the works of Jamini Roy and Jangarh Singh Shyam.
By drawing from a wide temporal span and a rich visual lexicon, the exhibition foregrounds how artists across generations resisted academic conventions and embraced individual expression. Their practices—rooted in memory, place, mythology, and social critique-converge to articulate a distinctly local yet globally resonant vision of modernism.