Presenting the legacy of Tyeb Mehta, the Foundation serves as a platform where vision, form, and culture coalesce. Established in 2013, it seeks to deepen the understanding of his practice and widen the discourse around South Asian modern and contemporary art.

Tyeb Mehta’s oeuvre resonates with a vigorous intensity, distilling pain, faith, and longing into stark yet lyrical forms that speak to the universal fragility of existence. By serving as a platform for emerging voices and diverse perspectives, the Foundation seeks to sustain this spirit of existential inquiry and innovation that defined Tyeb’s passion.

Nurturing artists through a thoughtfully designed support system—including grants, scholarships, and curatorial programmes such as exhibitions, workshops, screenings, publications, dialogues, and research initiatives—the Foundation offers agency to the young and emerging.

Through Tyeb Mehta’s lens, culture and art are not reflections of one another but an aesthetic tension in an interchangeable dialogue. On the same lines, the Foundation aims at fostering symbiotic spaces where image-making, creative inquiry, and experimentation give rise to new forms of meaning.

The Tyeb Mehta Foundation (TMF) is committed to encouraging the dialogue between art and culture—between image and idea—that shapes how we understand societal change and growth. Its diverse projects highlight interdisciplinary exchanges, sustain the discourse of modernity within the contemporary, and forge enduring partnerships and collaborations.