Choti Tekam

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Choti Tekam


Choti Tekam is a celebrated contemporary Gond artist from the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh, the heartland of India's Gond tribal community. After her marriage to Santosh Tekam, she moved to Bhopal and found herself part of a family lineage steeped in this art form, closely tied to the legendary Jangarh Singh Shyam, who first carried Gond painting from mud walls onto canvas. Guided by master artist Ram Singh Urveti and her husband, Choti came to painting relatively late in life, teaching herself through patience, imagination, and quiet determination. She continues to practise and nurture her craft at the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (National Museum of Mankind) in Bhopal. Her paintings bring alive the Gond belief that every creature and plant is sacred, reimagining birds, deer, elephants, and trees as vivid, richly patterned compositions that carry an ancient tribal worldview into a thoroughly contemporary visual language.


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