BEGINNINGS
Born in Annaram, Andhra Pradesh. 1941 Founder member, Contemporary Painters of Bombay, Bombay. 1942 Participated in Quit India Movement. 1982 Biographical book titled 40 Years of P.T. Reddy, was released.
EDUCATION
• 1930 Passed Intermediate Examinations conducted by, J.J. School of Art, Bombay.
• 1933-34 Passed higher examination in drawing and painting, Govt. of Madras.
• 1935-42 Studied Painting, J.J. School of Arts, Bombay.
EXHIBITIONS
• 1941 First group exhb., Contemporary Painters of Bombay, Bombay.
• 1940 First solo exhb., Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay.
• 1943 Solo exhb., Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay.
• 1955 Annual exhb., Hyderabad.
• 1956 Solo exhb., Bombay.
• 1957 Solo exhb., All India Industrial Exhb. Grounds, Hyderabad.
• 1968 1st International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
• 1976 Retrospective, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan and Sudharma Modern Art Gallery, Hyderabad.
• 1983 Solo exhb. on Tantra, West Germany.
• 1985-86 Neo Tantra: Contemporary Indian Painting, Fredrick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles.
• 2004 Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
COLLECTION
• Buckingham Palace, London.
• J.J. School of Art, Mumbai.
• Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
• College of Art, New Delhi.
• Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad.
• Lalit Kala Akademi, Hyderabad.
• Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
• National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
• Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Govt. of India, New Delhi.
• Parliament House, New Delhi.
• Tata Fundamental Research Institute, Mumbai.
AWARDS
• 1935 Awarded P.J. Reddy Scholarship that enabled him to study at J.J. School of Art, Bombay.
• 1937 Award, Annual Exhb., Bombay Art Society, Bombay.
• 1940-41 Awarded Miss Dolly Cursetjee Prize for Murals.
• 1940 Award, Annual Exhb., Bombay Art Society, Bombay.
• 1940 Awarded The Lord Mayo Scholarship for Mural Art.
STYLE
Reddy is a classicist turned modernist. He is a serious artist involved in a personal vision and committed to social concerns. His art is conspicuous for its strength, sensuousness and subjectivity. Reddy was inspired by the Post-Impressionist and other moderns particularly Picasso. The key strength in Reddy?s work is the process of integration, which often produces a synthesis of his influences. His works are not deliberately either figurative or abstract. His style is dictated by the nature of the subject and by his own preferences and in these there is no such thing as abstraction. He paints elegant and lyrical compositions of figures in a spontaneous style with emphasis on design and colour orchestration. To him visual experience means equation with environment. Reddy had a bright palette, the composition essentially constructive, the patterns being regular and geometrical.
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