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About the Artist

Dr. Kota Neelima is an author, researcher and impressionist-abstract artist whose paintings are inspired by Indian philosophy and informed by rural distress and poverty in India. An alumna of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University, she was Senior Research Fellow, South Asia Studies at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.

Among her solo shows, First Cause (2012), What the Eyes Can See (2015), Places of Worship (2017), Metaphors of the Moon (2018), were based on the Upanishadic exploration of the cause of all Creation, the cause of all causes. The Manifest Absence (2018) was her 8th solo exhibition held at Nehru Centre, London, and the collection was part of her 9th solo exhibition The Nature of Things (2019), which includes a conceptual retrospective of the artist’s work for the past 13 years. Neelima’s art has been displayed in several cities in India and abroad; her works have been featured at the China Art Museum in Shanghai, and are part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Sacred Art, Belgium.

Also an author, one of Neelima’s book on devotion, Tirupati: A Guide To Life (Penguin, 2012) has been
translated into several languages. Neelima has also written extensively on agrarian crisis, farmer
suicides and state of women in India villages. Her latest book is Widows of Vidarbha, Making of Shadows
(Oxford University Press, 2018)