Chintan Upadhyay

Chintan Upadhyay (born 1972) is an Indian artist. He was awarded the Charles Wallace Foundation Award for Residency in Bristol, UK in 2012. He began as a painter, but now creates sculptures and installations, the surfaces of which he paints.
His best known sculpture project is perhaps the Pet Shop project, which is an ongoing production of a "model baby" for every season, "Baby fetish".
Early life.
Chintan was born in 1972 in Partapur, Rajasthan, India, and gained a BFA Painting Faculty of Fine Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India in 1995 and MFA Painting Faculty of Fine Arts from M.S. University, Gujarat, India in 1997.
Accused of murder.
In December 2015, Upadhyay was accused and arrested in connection with the double murder of his estranged wife Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani. Their bodies were found in khakhi-coloured cardboard boxes floating in a nullah. He has twice been denied bail and the case is ongoing.