Ravinder Reddy produces sculptures of the most universal forms of all: women’s heads and bodies. He has been pursuing his unending fascination with the female form since the 1980s. Often monumentally scaled, with wide eyes, blocky features, and garishly colored skin, Reddy’s sculptures of women are inspired by Pop Art portraits and modeled after traditional Indian religious statuary, depictions and descriptions of Hindu goddesses, and the local women by which he is surrounded. At once alluring and monstrous, they read as celebrations of the female figure in all its shapely variety and as parodies of the ideal of feminine beauty in traditional and contemporary Indian culture.

Born on 1956 at Suryapet of Andhra Pradesh, G Ravender Reddy did his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from M.S. University, Baroda. He also received a diploma from Goldsmith College of Arts in Art and Design.