N. N. Rimzon (b. 1957) is a sculptor, painter, and installation artist whose four-decade-long practice redefined Indian contemporary art through a minimalist and conceptual vocabulary. Breaking away from narrative traditions, Rimzon’s early work, shaped by his education at Santiniketan and the Royal College of Art, London, he explores the spiritual and symbolic weight of form. Across media, his restrained gestures and stark material choices draw the viewer into a meditative space where absence becomes a powerful presence.
Rimzon’s visual language centers the human figure, often solitary and encircled by elemental forces as a site of vulnerability and divinity. His works reflect a deep engagement with India’s classical thought and cultural traditions, while also responding to socio-political violence and ecological anxieties. Symbols like the seed, the sword, or the body itself emerge repeatedly in his drawings and sculptures, suggesting cycles of creation, destruction, and transcendence.