Kali

Born in Mumbai into a middle-class Gujarati family, Bhupen Khakhar trained as an accountant but moved to Baroda in 1962, where he chose a new career path as a writer and an artist. Largely self-taught, Khakhar later became a key figure at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda. Khakhar and his peers organized the landmark exhibition Place for People which traveled to Delhi and Bombay in 1981. The exhibition marked the move away from the Modernism associated with the Progressives and developed an Indian Post-Modernist aesthetic, which centered on the representation of the human figure within a local context. Khakhar chose to portray ironic depictions of social types and mocked the tastes and aspirations of the Indian middle-class by doing so. Khakhar continually pushed the boundaries of subject matter, often touching on topics that were controversial and derived from autobiographical references,

Mumbai, India