Devraj Dakoji, a graduate from the College of Fine Arts and Architecture in Hyderabad, went on to study printmaking at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, and there interacted with prominent creatives such as Jyoti Bhatt (b. 1934). In 1996, Dakoji founded Atelier 2221 Print and Edition Studio in Shahpurjat. Reflected throughout Dakoji’s body of works is the close relationship with nature first encouraged in childhood by his father. Many, such as this print, incorporate rocks characteristic to the Hyderabad landscape and explore their underlying spirituality through tonality and perspective.

After studying at two prominent arts institutions in India, the College of Fine Arts and Architecture in Hyderabad and Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda, Devraj Dakoji traveled to New York in 1980 to learn at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop - where he apprenticed under Krishna Reddy - and has since been involved in events there as a teacher, juror, and exhibiting artist. In 1992, he joined the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico to deepen his experience with collaborative printmaking, an interaction of artist and printer to create a “heightened” product. Dakoji currently lives with his wife and fellow printmaker Pratibha in New York.