A modernist and an innovator, Krishna Reddy’s sense of curiosity and persistence in experimentation had a transformative impact on the art world. Raised in rural Andhra Pradesh with a deep sense of community living, where shared cultures and traditions embedded the importance of art and philosophy into his life from an early age. Reddy’s constant movement from rural to urban, across three continents, through various junctures of his life, shaped his worldview.  From studying in Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan to further training in Royal College of Art in London, followed by a stint in Paris for two decades, first as an apprentice and then as a professional, and eventually settling in New York, his journey provided him with multiple, shifting, differing and sometimes opposing perspectives which all came to ultimately inform his practice.

An accomplished artist, print maker, sculptor and pedagogue, Reddy excelled in different avenues. While he mastered the mediums of printmaking and sculpting, his most daring contribution lies in the technical innovations in intaglio printmaking. During his time at  Stanley William Hayter’s Atelier 17 in Paris, in the 1950s and 60s, Reddy developed the color viscosity method. He simultaneously layered colors prepared with linseed oil of varying viscosities onto an etched metal plate, creating complex chromatic prints. Through his practice across seven decades, Reddy has developed a language that, at its core, probes introspective questions of the complexities of nature, man, and their relationship with the universe.