Sid Katragadda

Sid Katragadda is an Indian-American Artist who fuses Indian and Western art into a unique blend not seen before. He has been painting since he was around five. He started exhibiting and selling his art only in 2008. For the next decade, he was very prolific, selling nearly 70 of his Abstract “Dark Indian Women” series paintings to private collectors across the world. In 2010, his work was acquired by famous filmmaker Mani Ratnam.

He took a break from painting in 2015, to focus on films and writing, before returning to art in 2022, when he painted a series of 12 Western paintings in what he calls Holeism style, based on various humanitarian issues, including abortion, race, war, violence against women, climate change, guns and border issues. He also returned to his abstract Indian women, creating the first of his Timism style paintings.

As an artist, he believes that an artist's primary objective should be to capture a culture – and that a culture can be best understood through its women. He aims to develop his own styles of painting that progress art in new directions. His experiments are seen in all his paintings.

He says, "my art has three sides - the three Ss: Story, Social Impact and Shift (Innovation). My work is not stri...

1997 - Masters in Computer Science, University of Texas, Arlington

2014 - Painting Composition II - City College, San Diego

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Karnataka Chitra Kala Parishath, Bangalore
2008 Palm Meadows, Bangalore
2015 Wine Vault, San Diego
2023 I Can't Breathe, Cultural Arts Collective
2024 Monsoon Maidens, Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Mixture Gallery (San Diego, 2010)
Indian Art Collectors, Featured Artist(2012, 2013)
Palm Meadows (Bangalore, 2008 & 2013)
Palm Retreat (Bangalore, 2013)
Kensington Art Gallery, San Diego (San Diego, CA, 2014)
Interiority , Cultrally Arts (2024)