Artist of the Collection · Bihar, India

Anil Bihari

Printmaking and painting shaped by memory, inherited imagery and a search for an independent visual language.

A key figure in Bihar’s contemporary art community, Anil Bihari is known for lithographic work as well as painting. His career moved through Baroda and Karnataka before he returned to Bihar, carrying a sustained engagement with printmaking.

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Anil Bihari artwork in the Saraswati Foundation collection

The artist

Beyond the inherited miniature

Bihar Museum describes Bihari’s early visual language as drawing on Kangra painting and Madhubani forms before he moved beyond established miniature conventions. Lithography remains central to his artistic identity.

Awards & honours

Artist record

No formal award documented in cited sources

The museum and press sources consulted focus on his practice and exhibitions, without naming an award.

Biography

A printmaker’s journey

A 2015 interview recounts that Bihari trained in Baroda, later worked in Paris, developed his printmaking practice in Karnataka and then returned to Bihar. The report notes his work across painting, lithography, graphics and etching.

The Bihar Museum identifies him as an artist known for lithographic works. It traces an early relationship with Kangra and Madhubani imagery and a later move beyond the existing norms of miniature art.

His practice brings a long printmaking history into conversation with contemporary painting and the cultural forms of Bihar.

Biography synthesised from museum, gallery and institutional profiles.

Selected exhibitions