Akbar Padamsee, born 1928, in Mumbai, India, is a contemporary Indian artist, and one of the generation of established artists who started painting before Indian Independence. He graduated from the Sir J.J. School of Art in 1940 with a diploma in painting and series of sculpture classes behind him. Although he is best known as a painter, Akbar Padamsee has experimented with film-making, sculpture, and writing as an art critic. He exhibited with the Progressive Artists' Group, a group that reacted against both Western classicism and folk-art revival to establish modern and personal styles. He left for Paris in 1951 and lived and worked there till his return in 1967. Padamsee lives and works in Mumbai.