List of Lalit Kala Akademi fellows


The Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship, also, Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna is an honour for the fine arts in India, given to eminent artists for their lifetime achievements in the field of visual arts. It is awarded by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Art, it is the highest honour in the fine arts conferred by the Government of India.
The ‘Fellow,’ carries a purse-money of Rs.25,000/-, a citation and a plaque. The Fellow is honoured with a portfolio about their major art works. The first elected fellow, in 1955, was the artist Jamini Roy.

List of Fellows

No. Name of the Fellow Year
  1. Jamini Roy 1955
  2. Nandalal Bose 1956
  3. D. P. Roy Chowdhury 1962
  4. Kuppali Venkatappa 1962
  5. Akbar Padamsee 1962
  6. O. C. Ganguly 1963
  7. Vinayak Pandurang Karmarkar 1964
  8. S. L. Haldar 1964
  9. Rai Kishan Dass 1964
  10. G. Venkatachalam 1965
  11. C. Sivaramamurti 1965
  12. Benode Behari Mukherjee 1970
  13. Ravi Shankar Raval 1970
  14. Anil Karanjai 1972
  15. N. S. Bendre 1974
  16. Mulk Raj Anand 1974
  17. Umesh Chopra 1975
  18. Ram Kinker Baij 1976
  19. Kanwal Krishna 1976
  20. Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar 1976
  21. K. C. S. Paniker 1976
  22. M. F. Hussain 1978
  23. Dhanraj Bhagat 1978
  24. B. C. Sanyal 1980
  25. Karl J. Khandalavala 1980
  26. V. R. Amberkar 1980
  27. P. T. Reddy 1980
  28. Kashmiri Khosa 1981
  29. K. S. Kulkarni 1982
  30. S. Dhanapal 1982
  31. Sankho Chaudhuri 1982
  32. Prodosh Dasgupta 1982
  33. M. S. Randhawa 1982
  34. K. H. Ara 1984
  35. S. H. Raza 1984
  36. Gunwant Singh Dewal 1984
  37. K. G. Subramanyan 1985
  38. K. Sreenivasulu 1985
  39. Shiavax Chavda 1986
  40. Paritosh Sen 1986
  41. Mukul Dey 1987
  42. Svetoslav Roerich 1987
  43. Dr. K. M. Gopal 1988
  44. Ram Gopal Vijaiwargiya 1988
  45. Ranbir Singh Bisht 1988
  46. Bimal Dasgupta 1990
  47. Radha Mohan 1990
  48. A. S. Raman 1993
  49. Amar Nath Sehgal 1993
  50. Kapila Vatsyayan 1995
  51. Anand Dev 1995
  52. Dinkar Shankar Thopte 1996
  53. Sheshirao Biradar 1997
  54. Jagadish Chandra Dey 2000
  55. A. Ramachandran 2002
  56. Bikash Bhattacharjee 2003
  57. Keshav Malik 2004
  58. Srihari Bholekar 2004
  59. Jeram Patel 2007
  60. M. V. Krishnan 2007
  61. Ram Kumar 2011