Born in 1942 in Boorugpalli, Andhra Pradesh. He obtained his Diploma in painting from the College Of Fine Arts, Hyderabad and then won the State Lalit Kala Academi's Fellowship to study printmaking and painting at M.S.University, Baroda. He has been teaching at BAL Bhavan, Hyderabad for several years. He won the National Award, 1993, Hyderabad Arts Society award in 1973 and Bharat Bhavan Biennale award in 1988. He participated in many exhibitions in Hyderabad 1972-90, VII Triennale , India 1991, Art Encounter, Kassel, Germany 1999, Asprey's auction for helpage 1993, Chamatkara at London and many shows at Madras and Calcutta. His works are in collections of A.P.State LKA, Hyderabad, Kamala and Jagdish Mittal, Glenbarra Museum, Japan. He lives and works in Hyderabad. T. Vaikuntam is known for his paintings in tempera and watercolour on paper, which are deeply rooted in the rural Andhra soil of South India. His works are not large; some could even be described as miniatures. The figures, mostly of women, evoke the sense of earthy voluptuousness found in the mural and folk painting traditions of south India. On a flat two-dimensional surface, Vaikuntam's large figures occupy nearly all of the pictorial space and express a sense of monumentality. The painter achieves this with the use of controlled and fluid lines, juxtaposed with brilliant primary colours like red, green, yellow, dark brown and white. The artist's use of little details like caste marks, gold jewellery, flowers and an occasional parrot gives his paintings a distinctively Indian flavour....ExC Chamatkara, Whitelays Art Gallery, London, Oct-Nov, 1996.