This one-day event brings together curators, art historians, and scholars to foster dialogue and study Ribeiro’s impact as an artist who refused to be branded. It will explore why he was considered the ‘godfather of generations of artists using acrylics,’ (The Times, 2011) and chart the advocacy role he played through the Indian Artists’ Collective movement for artists from the Subcontinent who ‘hoped to catapult themselves on the British scene’ (Ribeiro, The Economic Times, 1973).

Friday, 20 February 2026

• 11.00 – 20.00

• V&A South Kensington

  Cromwell Road
  London, SW7 2RL

• Hochhauser Auditorium