Jaya Krishna Bandari is a painter and educator from Andhra Pradesh, India. A four-decade studio practice in oil, portraiture, watercolor, drawing, and abstraction — with work honored on stage, exhibited in the USA and India, and painted into Indian cinema.
He came to painting as a natural vocation and has now spent more than forty years at the easel — a career that began in the mid-1980s and has grown through portrait commissions, gallery exhibitions, teaching, and cinema.
He works across oil painting, portraits, watercolors, pen drawing, pencil shading, modern composition, and abstract painting. Collectors have acquired more than six thousand of his original works. For more than twenty-five years he has taught students at every level — more than 1,500 artists have trained with him.
His paintings have appeared as background and set art in Indian cinema, including Aithe (2003), Super (2005), Nagavalli (2010), Kandireega (2011), Businessman (2012), and Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu (2012). Original work is presented at jayakrishnaarts.com.
Honors & Exhibitions
He has been honored by Carnatic maestro Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna and by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. His paintings have also been shown as Artist of the Month at Open Studio Hartford, presented by Artists in Real Time.
Sri Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna
Honored on stage
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
Receiving a plaque
Open Studio Hartford
Artist of the Month
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