Born in 1940, Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh, Kalal Laxma Goud is an Indian painter, printmaker and draughtsman. He completed his diploma in drawing and painting from the Government School of Art and Architecture, Hyderabad, in 1963. He then went on to study Mural Painting under K.G. Subramanyan at the Faculty of Fine Arts at MSU, Baroda, from 1963 to 1965 where he discovered his love for printmaking.

Laxma Goud works in a variety of mediums including etching, gouache, pastel, sculpture, and glass painting. 

Goud’s early drawings are reiterations of his childhood memories of rural and tribal vivacity through an urban grid in which surreal, libidinal tones mingle with fantasy and poetry. He created masterful small paintings of village life in a palette of monochrome greys. His vivacious portraits of men and women brim with raw energy reinforced with masterful strokes.

Goud is the head and a teacher at Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Art, Fine Art & Communication, University of Hyderabad. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2016.

The artist lives and works in Hyderabad.