Artist of the Collection · Mumbai, India

Atul Dodiya

A painter of layered histories, images and cultural memory.

Atul Dodiya brings Indian and global visual languages into conversation through paintings, shutters and installations. His work often shifts between lived experience, art history and the images that shape public life.

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Atul Dodiya artwork in the Saraswati Foundation collection

The artist

Painting as an open archive

Dodiya’s practice gathers fragments from cinema, literature, politics and art history, arranging them into dense visual conversations. The resulting images move between the intimate and the public, inviting viewers to make connections across time and place.

Awards & honours

1995

Sanskriti Award

Recognition listed in the artist’s gallery biography.

2013

NGMA survey exhibition

Experiments with Truth surveyed works from 1981 to 2013 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

Biography

Images in conversation

Born in Mumbai in 1959, Dodiya studied at Sir J. J. School of Art, graduating in 1982, and later at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1991–92.

His practice combines painting with shutters, found imagery and installation. Across these forms, references to Indian public life sit alongside European and international art histories.

Dodiya lives and works in Mumbai. His work is held in major museum collections in India and internationally.

Biography synthesised from museum, gallery and institutional profiles.

Selected exhibitions