Krishna Reddy

Krishna Reddy (b. 1925 Nandanoor, India – d. 2018 New York, USA) trained in sculpture first under the tutelage of Ramkinkar Baij at Kalabhavana, Santiniketan (1949), and thereafter at Slade School of Art, London (1951) in Henry Moore’s class. He was co-director of Atelier 17, Paris and the founder of Color Print Atelier, New York. Reddy was director of the Printmaking department at NYU since 1976. Reddy’s work has been shown at numerous exhibitions and print biennales all over the world. Select exhibitions include: In Search of Simultaneity, Experimenter, Kolkata (2020); To a New Form, Experimenter, Kolkata (2019); Bauhaus Imaginista, curated by Grant Watson and Marion Von Osten, Tokyo & Kyoto (2018-19), Workshop & Legacy, curated by Navina Najat Haidar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (2016-17); The Embodied Image, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi (2011-12) curated by Roobina Karode; Krishna Reddy: A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (1982). Reddy’s work is in the permanent collections of The Tate Britain London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York & MoMA, New York, The Kiran Nadar Museum, New Delhi, Cincinnati Art Museum and M+ Museum, Hong Kong, among others.