This is a list of recipients of the Padma Shri award in the field of Art. The Padma Shri is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted in 1954, the award is conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
As of 2026, a total of 952 individuals have been awarded Padma Shri for their contributions to art.
1950–1959
YearNameState/Country1954Nandalal BoseWest Bengal1954Madurai Shanmugavadivu SubbalakshmiTamil Nadu1954Jamini RoyWest Bengal1955Thakore Pandit Onkar NathUttar Pradesh1956Rukmini Devi ArundaleTamil Nadu1956Sthanam Narasimha RaoAndhra Pradesh1957Pt. Shrikrishna N. RatanjankarUttar Pradesh1957T. BalasaraswathiTamil Nadu1957Ustad Mushtaq Husain KhanMadhya Pradesh1957Dwaram Venkataswami NaiduAndhra Pradesh1957Sudhir Ranjan KhastgirUttar Pradesh1958Debi Prosad Roy-ChoudhryWest Bengal1958Ariyakudi Ramanuja IyengarTamil Nadu1958Ustad Allauddin KhanUttar Pradesh1958Kum. Nargis ( Fatima A Rasheed )Maharashtra1958Debaki Kumar BoseWest Bengal1958Satyajit RoyWest Bengal1958Shambhoo MaharajUttar Pradesh1958Devika RaniKarnataka1959Kankanhalli VasudevacharyaKarnataka1959Pammal Sambanda MudaliarTamil Nadu1959Sisir Kumar BhaduriWest Bengal
1960–1969
YearNameState/Country1960Ustad Hafiz Ali KhanMadhya Pradesh1960Vir VatiDelhi1961Svetoslav RoerichRussia1961Bismillah KhanUttar Pradesh1961Kattingeri Krishna HebbarMaharashtra1961Raghunath Krishna PhadkeMadhya Pradesh1962Bade Ghulam Ali KhanMaharashtra1962Ashok Kumar GangulyMaharashtra1963Mehboob KhanMaharashtra1963Melville DeMellowRajasthan1964Narayanrao Shripad Rajhans alias Bal GandharvaMaharashtra1964Adi MarzbanMaharashtra1964Pratul Chandra SorcarWest Bengal1964Vinayak Pandurang KarmarkarMaharashtra1965Satyajit RayWest Bengal1965Guru Kunju KurupKerala1965Ravishanker Mahashanker RavalGujarat1965Vuppalathadiyam NagayyaTamil Nadu1965Mrinalini SarabhaiGujarat1966Shankar PillaiDelhi1966Zubin MehtaCanada1966Eswara Iyer Krishna IyerTamil Nadu1966Maqbool Fida HusainDelhi1966Villupuram Chinnaiya GanesanTamil Nadu1966Bhanumati RamakrishnaTamil Nadu1966Sumitra Charat RamDelhi1967Ali Akbar KhanWest Bengal1967Ravi ShankarUttar Pradesh1967Madras Lalithangi VasanthakumariAndhra Pradesh1967Krishnachandra Moreshwar alias Daji BhatawadekarMaharashtra1967Mohammad RafiPunjab1967Sasadhar MukerjiMaharashtra1967Vasant DesaiMaharashtra1967Vinjamuri Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha RaoTamil Nadu1967Siddheshwari DeviDelhi1968Bismillah KhanUttar Pradesh1968Yamini KrishnamurtiDelhi1968Ayodhya PrasadUttar Pradesh1968Akkineni Nageswara RaoAndhra Pradesh1968Devi Lal SamarRajasthan1968Jaikishan Dahyabhai PanchalMaharashtra1968Joseph HaroldDelhi1968Murlidhar Ramchandra AchrekarMaharashtra1968Nandamuri Taraka Rama RaoAndhra Pradesh1968Nikhil BanerjeeWest Bengal1968Shankar Singh RaghuvanshiMaharashtra1968Sunil DuttMaharashtra1968Akhtari Bai Faizabadi (Begum Akhtar)Uttar Pradesh1968Durga KhoteMaharashtra1968VyjayanthimalaTamil Nadu1968Sharan Rani BackliwalDelhi1969Lata Dinanath MangeshkarMaharashtra1969Prithviraj KapoorPunjab1969Rahim-ud-din Khan DagarDelhi1969Semmangudi Srinivasa IyerTamil Nadu1969Subramaniam Sreenivasan VasanTamil Nadu1969Kesarbai KerkarMaharashtra1969Narayan Sridhar BendreMaharashtra1969Balraj SahniPunjab1969David AbrahamMaharashtra1969Khwaja Ahmad AbbasMaharashtra1969SukhdevMaharashtra1969Sachin Dev BurmanWest Bengal1969Sadashiva Rath SharmaOdisha1969Singannachar Narasimha SwamyAndhra Pradesh1969Byrappa Saroja DeviKarnataka1969Indrani RehmanDelhi
1970–1979
YearNameState/Country1970Ahmad Jan ThirkawaUttar Pradesh1970Ramkinkar BaizWest Bengal1970Sombhu MitraWest Bengal1970Hirabai BarodekarMaharashtra1970KamalaTamil Nadu1970Abdul Halim Jaffer KhanMaharashtra1970Avinash Anandrai VyasMaharashtra1970Ezra MirMaharashtra1970Ghantasala Venkateswara RaoAndhra Pradesh1970Kalamandalam Krishnan NairKerala1970Karl Jamshed KhandalavalaMaharashtra1970M. KrishnanTamil Nadu1970Maisnam Amubi SinghManipur1970Mallikarjun MansurKarnataka1970Pankaj Kumar MullickWest Bengal1970Prem DhawanMaharashtra1970Rajendra KumarMaharashtra1970Ram Chatur MallikBihar1970Ramaswamy GanesanTamil Nadu1970Relangi VenkataramaiahAndhra Pradesh1970Ritwik GhatakWest Bengal1970Sukumar BoseDelhi1970T.R. MahalingamTamil Nadu1970Vedantam Satyanarayana SarmaAndhra Pradesh1970Vijaya Raghava RaoWest Bengal1970Damayanti JoshiMaharashtra1970Kodumudi Balambal SundarambalTamil Nadu1970Ratna FabriRajasthan1971Uday ShankarWest Bengal1971Ustad Allauddin KhanMadhya Pradesh1971Pichu SambamoorthiTamil Nadu1971Amir KhanMaharashtra1971Jaishankar SundariGujarat1971Krishnarao Phulambrikar alias KrishnaraoMaharashtra1971Musiri Subramania IyerTamil Nadu1971Nisar Husain KhanUttar Pradesh1971Palghat Tiruvillvamalai Seshan Mani IyerTamil Nadu1971Poyippilli Kalathil Kunju KurupKerala1971Raj KapoorMaharashtra1971Rasipuram Krishnaswami LaxmanMaharashtra1971Damal Krishnaswami PattamalTamil Nadu1971Gangubai HanagalKarnataka1971Pt. Siyaram TiwariBihar1971Chengannur Raman PillaiKerala1971Karaola; Natesa Pillai Dhandayuthapani PillaiTamil Nadu1971Mangalampalli Balamurali KrishnaTamil Nadu1971Manna DeyMaharashtra1971Qadri Ragi Aziz Ahmed Khan WarsiAndhra Pradesh1971Ravi Shankar SharmaHaryana1971Sankho ChaudhuriDelhi1971Trivandrum Kandaswami Pillai ShanmugamTamil Nadu1971Vazhenkata Kunchu NairKerala1971Shanta RaoKarnataka1971Tripti MitraWest Bengal1972Vinayakbuwa PatwardhanMaharashtra1972B. N. SircarBihar1972Papanasam Ramayya SivanTamil Nadu1972Gubbi Hampanna VeerannaKarnataka1972Waheeda RahmanMaharashtra1972Bhim Sen JoshiMaharashtra1972Hrishikesh MukherjeeMaharashtra1972Krishna ReddyFrance1972Lalgudi JayaramanTamil Nadu1972Madras Kandaswamy RadhaTamil Nadu1972Mahendra KapoorMaharashtra1972ChiranjitDelhi1972Raghu RaiDelhi1972Ram KumarDelhi1972Samta PrasadUttar Pradesh1972Sunil JanahDelhi1972Surendra Nath BanerjeeWest Bengal1972Takhelehangbam Amudon SharmaManipur1972Vasudeo Santu GaitondeMaharashtra1972Vazhuvoor Bagyalakshmi Ramiah PillaiTamil Nadu1972Girija DeviUttar Pradesh1972Juthika RayWest Bengal1972Savitri Indrajit ParekhGujarat1972Suchitra SenWest Bengal1973Chembai Vaidyanatha BhagavatharKerala1973Krishna Rao Shankar PanditMadhya Pradesh1973Maqbool Fida HusainDelhi1973Kum. Uma SharmaDelhi1973Balasubramania Sastrigal alias Balu BhagvatharTamil Nadu1973Chellasami Sirchabai MurugabhupathyTamil Nadu1973Kishan MaharajUttar Pradesh1973S.G. Thakar SinghPunjab1973Shakoor KhanDelhi1973Thikkurissy Sukumaran NairKerala1973Tripunittura Narayanan KrishnanTamil Nadu1973Sitara DeviMaharashtra1974Binode Behari MukherjeeUttarakhand1974Alice BonnerItaly1974B. Narsimha ReddyAndhra Pradesh1974Chintamani KarWest Bengal1974Dhiren GanguliWest Bengal1974Thakur Jaideva SinghUttar Pradesh1974Mogubai KurdikarMaharashtra1974Shriram LagooMaharashtra1974Ali Hasan @ Kalloo HafizUttar Pradesh1974Emani Sankara SastriDelhi1974Ghulam Qadir LallaJammu and Kashmir1974Girish KarnadKarnataka1974Kelucharan MohapatraOdisha1974Kirpal Singh ShekhawatRajasthan1974Manjapara Devesa Bhagavathar RamanathanKerala1974Mani Madhava ChakyarKerala1974Thiruvizhimazhalai Subramania PillaiTamil Nadu1974Manik Amar VarmaMaharashtra1974Muryam BegumJammu and Kashmir1974Nina Ripjit Singh @ Naina DeviDelhi1974Nutan BahlMaharashtra1975Madurai Shanmugavadivu SubbalakshmiTamil Nadu1975Begum Akhtar (posthumous)Uttar Pradesh1975Kalpatthi Ganapathi SubramanyanWest Bengal1975JasrajMaharashtra1975Amjad Ali KhanDelhi1975Basava Raja Mahanthaswamy RajaguruKarnataka1975Gitchandra TongbraManipur1975Gopi KrishnaMaharashtra1975Kettassery Joseph JesudasKerala1975Kalyanam Raghu RamaiahAndhra Pradesh1975M. S. SathyuMaharashtra1975Madras Sundaram Iyer GopalakrishnanTamil Nadu1975Jagdamba DeviBihar1975Sanjukta PanigrahiOdisha1976Keshav Shankar PillaiDelhi1976Satyajit RayWest Bengal1976Mallikarjuna Bhimarayappa MansoorKarnataka1976Pandit Ram NarayanMaharashtra1976Balkrishna Raghunath DeodharMaharashtra1976Madurai S. SomasundaramTamil Nadu1976Nimai Charan HarichandanOdisha1976Palghat Kollengode Viswanath NarayanaswamyTamil Nadu1976Raghunath MahapatraOdisha1976Rattehalli Nagendra RaoKarnataka1976Shyam BenegalMaharashtra1976Parveen SultanaMaharashtra1976Ustad Fayyaz Ahmed KhanMaharashtra1977T. BalasaraswatiTamil Nadu1977Koduvayur Sivarama NarayanaswamiMaharashtra1977Paramsukh J. PandyaMaharashtra1977Shivputra Sidhram Komkali Alias Kumar GandharvaMadhya Pradesh1977Annapurna Ravi ShankarUttar Pradesh1977Bhupendra Kumar HazarikaAssam1977Sheik Chinna MoulanaTamil Nadu1977Dhan Raj BhagatDelhi1977Gulam Rasul SantoshDelhi1977Jehangir Ardeshir SabavalaMaharashtra1977Ustad Allarakha Khan QureshiJammu and Kashmir
1980–1989