Shanti Panchal

Shanti Panchal (born 1951) is an Indian-British artist.

Life Shanti Panchal was born in Mesar, a village in Gujarat, and studied at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Bombay. the recipient of a British Council Scholarship to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art. Since that time he has lived in London.

Panchal has been artist-in-residence at the British Museum, the Harris Museum in Preston and the Winsor & Newton Art Factory in London.

In 2016 Panchal criticised the artist Anish Kapoor for claiming a monopoly on the artistic use of the material Vantablack.

In August 2020 Panchal and Rachel Dickson co-curated 'Midnight's Family: 70 Years of Indian Artists in Britain', a virtual exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum.

Panchal is an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists.