Anupam Sud approaches printmaking with an intensity that is both precise and deeply introspective. Her visual language, grounded in the disciplined study of anatomy and the weight of emotional experience, lends her figures a quiet authority, charged with solitude, tension, and contemplative presence. A lifelong observer of human nature, she renders bodies not as idealized forms but as vessels of inner conflict, private strength, and psychological complexity. Born in 1944 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, Sud was shaped early by the rigour of observation. Her father’s fascination with bodybuilding introduced her to the contours of the human form, muscles, posture, and gesture, elements that would later become foundational to her practice. Over time, these formal concerns expanded to accommodate wider reflections on society, gender roles, personal autonomy, and the subtle negotiations of power that underlie everyday life. Her images do not narrate overtly but resonate with emotional clarity, dense with implication, resistant to simplification.

Sud studied at the College of Art in New Delhi, where the influential printmaker Jagmohan Chopra introduced her to the possibilities of intaglio and etching. In 1967, she became the youngest member of Group 8, a collective of experimental printmakers pushing the medium beyond the boundaries of craft. A pivotal moment came with her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1971, where her exposure to advanced printmaking techniques and Western modernism expanded her formal vocabulary. Yet she always maintained a firm grounding in the cultural and psychological nuances of her own environment.

Over several decades, Sud exhibited widely across India, Europe, North America, and Asia. Her work has been featured in major international biennales and collected by institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Peabody Essex Museum (Massachusetts), Jehangir Nicholson Foundation (Mumbai), National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi), and Fukuoka Museum (Japan). Between 1977 and 2003, she taught at her alma mater, quietly mentoring a generation of artists while continuing to build a profound and singular body of work. Now working from her studio in Mandi village, New Delhi, Anupam Sud remains one of India’s most respected printmakers. Her prints, meditative, meticulous, and emotionally resonant, stand as enduring testaments to the strength of quiet assertion and the interior life of the human figure.