The Inlaks Fine Art Award is organised annually to help young artists in their formative years to develop their creative talent. It provides financial assistance to enable them to work independently anywhere in India.

• The Award is worth Rs.3, 00,000/- (Three lakhs only) for a period of one year.

The awardee will have to attend an art residency programme within India for a period of 4 weeks during the course of the year.

ELIGIBILITY:

• The applicant must be a young emerging artist.
• Those born on or after 1^st January 1993 are eligible to apply for the 2024 award.
• The applicant may be a recent graduate/post-graduate or a final year student from a leading Indian institute for visual arts in India. No student of a first year master’s programme will be considered.
• The recipient should not be holding a similar/ government scholarship or award during the same tenure.
• If the candidate has applied for the award earlier, he/she must submit a new body of work if they re-apply.
• In the case of an applicant not having a formal degree in the visual arts, it is desirable that he/she would have participated in organized art exhibitions.
• The applicant for this award must be an Indian passport holder, currently resident in India.Image courtesy of Mithun Das (Fine Art Awardee, 2016) and Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation.