Amit Ambalal

He received the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Italy, 1999 and the Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi Award in 1968.

Ambalal’s paintings give evidence of an important tendency in contemporary Indian art - that of a contemporary approach to tradition via the ‘degenerate’ forms of the popular religious traditions. His painting in this sense makes an interesting interface with his passion for the art history of devotional pictures from Nathdwara. While on the one hand there is the historian’s aesthetic interest, there is equally the critical comment of the irreverent humor in his work.

He lives and works in Ahmedabad.