The Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram is an annual award given by the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi to a person showing excellence in the field of art and culture. The award is named after Raja Ravi Varma, a Malayali painter and artist. It was instituted by the Government of Kerala in 2001 to honour outstanding painters and sculptors from Kerala. The first recipient was K. G. Subramanyan.
List of winners YearAwardeeImage2001K. G. Subramanyan2002M. V. Devan2003A. Ramachandran2004Karuvattu Mana Vasudevan Namboothiri2005Kanayi Kunhiraman2006V. S. Valiathan2007M. F. Husain2008Gulam Mohammed Sheikh2009C. N. Karunakaran2010Ganesh Pyne2011C. L. Porinchukutty2012Yusuf Arakkal2013K. V. Haridasan2014Balan Nambiar2015Akkitham Narayanan2016Anila Jacob2017P. Gopinath2018 Paris Viswanathan2019B. D. Dethan202020212022 Surendran Nair
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