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Presented by Great Banyan Art at Bikaner House from 8–15 April 2026, Portraits in Time brings together fifty works spanning centuries and geographies, creating a cross-continental conversation on representation. Tracing the evolution of the human face as a site of presence, power, and memory, the exhibition explores portraiture not as a fixed genre but as an evolving inquiry into identity.

Installed chronologically, the exhibition moves from early European academic realism to modernist experimentation and contemporary interpretations of the human image. Artists including K. R. Ravi Varma, M. F. Pithawalla, F. N. Souza, Krishen Khanna, Anjolie Ela Menon, Rabin Mondal, Shobha Broota, Tom Vattakuzhy and others reveal how portraiture has shifted from formal representation toward psychological depth and personal narrative.

Across centuries and cultures, these works demonstrate how the portrait remains one of the most enduring artistic forms through which societies imagine identity, authority, and the human condition.