2007
Achuttan Kudallur born in 1945 in Kerala was a senior contemporary artist. Kudallur holds a degree in Civil Engineering. He studied painting at the Government College of Art in Chennai and was also a part of the Madras Art Club. While he was in search of a better medium for self-expression, he switched to painting abstracts as he believed abstracts revealed his true understanding of emotions. In 1989, he participated in a group show in India and Czechoslovakia. During 1990-92, he took part in a group of exhibitions in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and France. He won the Tamil Nadu Lalit Kala Akademi Award and later won the National Academy Award in New Delhi. Achuttan Kudallur passed away on July 18, 2022.