Krishna Reddy

b. 1925

Krishna Reddy studied art at the Vishwa-Bharati University,
Santiniketan, West Bengal. From 1947 to 1950 he headed the
art section at Kalakshetra, Chennai. From 1951-1952 he studied
art at the Slade School of Arts, University of London. Later, he
worked under William Hayter in Paris as Associate Director of
Atelier 17, as well as in the studios of Henry Moore in England,
Marino Marini in Italy and Ossip Zadkine in Paris. During the
1950s he began to teach, at the American University, Washington
and Stout University of Menomonie, Wisconsin. He has
participated in the International Symposium of sculpture held
at St Margarathain, Austria in 1962 and in Montreal, Canada
in 1964. He has served on numerous award juries, national and
international. Awarded the Padma Shree in 1972, Reddy was
also one of the guest Invitees to the Silvermime National Print
Biennial in the USA. Krishna Reddy lives and works out of Paris
and United States of America.