Akkitham Narayanan

Akkitham Narayanan (b.1939) was born in Kerala and trained at the Government College of Art and Craft, Madras, where he earned a diploma in painting in 1961 under K. C. S. Panicker. He then went to the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, from 1967 to 1970, to study monumental painting and engraving.

His practice is defined by geometric abstraction, blending Indian tantric sensibilities with western modernism through carefully structured geometric form, executed with precise construction, rhythmic repetition and subtle colour relationships.

He has received several notable awards, including honours from the Lalit Kala Akademi, Madras, awards at the All India Print Exhibition, New Delhi, and the International Festival of Painting at Cagnes-sur-Mer, and the K. C. S. Panicker Puraskaram. Narayanan lives and works in Paris.