Museum · New Delhi, Delhi
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
A private museum of modern and contemporary Indian art, opened in 2010. Its collection runs from Raja Ravi Varma to artists still early in their careers.
See first
- S. H. Raza's Saurashtra
- F. N. Souza's Birth (1955)
- V. S. Gaitonde and Tyeb Mehta
- Arpita Singh and Rameshwar Broota
- Subodh Gupta and N. S. Harsha
KNMA began in an office building. It opened in January 2010 in a gallery on the premises of HCL Technologies in Noida, with a show called Open Doors, and a year later moved to the South Court Mall in Saket. It is often described as India’s first private museum dedicated to modern and contemporary art. In 2019 David Adjaye was chosen to design a much larger building near Indira Gandhi International Airport.
The collection was formed by Kiran Nadar and is supported by the Shiv Nadar Foundation. It holds Raja Ravi Varma and M. F. Husain, the Progressives and their contemporaries, Ram Kumar, Krishen Khanna, Manjit Bawa, Jogen Chowdhury, A. Ramachandran, and younger artists including Subodh Gupta and N. S. Harsha. Two of its best-known paintings are Raza’s Saurashtra and Souza’s Birth, an eight-foot oil from 1955 often counted among his best.
Displays rotate, so what you see depends on the exhibition. In the summer of 2026 it showed part of its collection in London.