Artist Profile

About Artist

Venkat Shyam, is a GOND artist. His practice is ‘enriched in Tradition’, as well depicts ‘Social and the political’ as forms of ‘Art and Life’. In Delhi, Venkat has worked as a cook, a rickshaw puller, a mason, an electrician, putting most of his earnings into buying art materials. Here, he would often visit the eminent artist J. Swaminathan. Swamiji’s affectionate manner and the respect he showed, treating Venkat as a fellow artist, would always lift h ...