Sudhir Patwardhan is an Indian contemporary painter and a practising radiologist.

In 1972 he graduated in Medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.

He moved to Mumbai in 1973 and worked as a radiologist in Thane from 1975 to 2005.

The city-scape features prominently in his canvases, and reflect the agonies of the urban middle class and poor.

[2] Patwardhan’s works are in the permanent collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Roopankar Museum, Bhopal; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts and other prominent private and public collections.