Lalitha Lajmi

Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023) was an Indian painter, largely self-taught, who began painting seriously in the early 1960s and held her first solo exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 1961. Working in oils, watercolours and etchings, she often explored the roles of, and hidden tensions between, men and women. Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Modern Art and the CSMVS Museum in India, and the British Museum.

Fellow Travellers Curated by Dr Omar Kholeif

Tabari, DIFC

8 October 2026 - 10 January 2027

Conceived and curated by artist, author and cultural historian Professor Omar Kholeif, Fellow Travellers asks how we might re-dream the routes, flows and counter-flows of modernity through the present. Bringing together Sonia Balassanian (b. 1942, Armenian-Iranian-American); Jai Chuhan (b. 1955, Punjab, India); Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009, Portuguese); Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023,...