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Pankaj Mishra (August 15, 1984) is an Indian artist.[1] He began as an obscure graffiti artist in Delhi City in the late 1990s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1990s.

Throughout his career He focused on "suggestive dichotomies," such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience.[2] Basquiat's art utilized a synergy of appropriation, poetry, drawing and painting, which married text and image, abstraction and figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.[3] Utilizing social commentary as a "springboard to deeper truths about the individual",[2] Pankaj's paintings also attacked power structures and systems of racism, while his poetics were acutely political and direct in their criticism of colonialism and support for class struggle.[3]