Jyothi Basu was born in Kerala in 1960.
He has a BFA in Painting from the College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum and a Post Diploma in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. Solo exhibitions include Visionary Antiquities at Nature Morte, New Delhi, 2006, Landscapes towards a Supreme Fiction, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, 2006, and Healing Properties: VN Jyothi Basu’s Landscapes of the Self at Artists’ Center, Mumbai, 2003. Participations include Santhal Family at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium, 2008, Horn Please, Narratives in contemporary Indian Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007, Private/Corporate IV: Works from the Lekha and Anupam Poddar and DaimlerChrysler Collections, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, 2007, A Piece of the Wall, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, 2006 and The ArtistLives and Works, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2005.
Jyothi Basu lives in Mumbai.