Ram Kumar is counted as one amongst the foremost generation of post-colonial Indian artists - within such figures as F N Souza, M F Husain, Paritosh Sen, Jehangir Sabavala, Krishen Khanna, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee. These post-colonial artists try to bring an internationalist desire, along with the need to ardently be a part of their homeland.

In its internationalist mood, the post-colonial Indian artists` generation looked towards the early 20th century modernisms of Paris, London and Vienna for inspiration. The generation felt the need to belong motivated towards an interest in building a viable `Indian` aesthetic, that carried a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity. The quest for an indigenous strain within Ram Kumar did not mean a "superficial inventory of `native` motifs, offered as evidence of a static and essentialist Indian identity". Instead he tried to demonstrate a painter`s inborn nature to ordain the innermost dramas of his culture by preserving the personal identity, even mannerism of his performance.

Ram Kumar`s recent paintings depict another kind of rapprochement as the aesthetic experience appertains. The domain of `samsara`, rather than that of `nirvana` cannot be delineated by austereness of structure alone. The impulse towards the voluptuary intimates itself even in the sternest asceticism. Ram Kumar was moved by one pole of his mental responsiveness and awareness. Ram Kumar has often pretended to possess an `inquisitor of structures` (the phrase is Wallace Stevens`), metamorphosing the earth in the dialect of the surveyor`s map. This attempt of his depicts a `topographical code of contour lines and benchmarks constrain the deep saturations of the landscape`. Simultaneously he has always been tempted to vacillate to the other romantic pole of his sensibility. This state can be described as `taking a passionate and unabashed delight in the physicality of the vista, its capacity for moodiness and unstable beauty, he has celebrated the flush of magnolias in bloom, the gravid slopes borne down by clouds`.

Some exhibitions of Ram Kumar worthy of mention include
2005 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
2002 Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, New Delhi, San Fransico, New York;
2000 Landscapes from New Zealand, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi;
1999 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai; in 1998 A Gallery, New York;
1997 Arks Gallery, London;
1996 Pages From a Sketch Book, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1993 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi;
1992 Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi;
1992 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1991 Chitrakoot Gallery, Kolkata;
1990 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1990 Center for Contemporary Art, New Delhi;
1988 Works on paper, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi;
1986 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1984 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1983 Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1981 Works on paper, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1980 Art Heritage, New Delhi;
1994 Jehangir Art Gallery, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi; i
1993 National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, organised by Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi;
1986 Jehangir Art Gallery, organized by Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;
1986 Museum of Contemporary Art, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal;
1985 Art Heritage, New Delhi; in 1980 Birla Museum, Kolkata;
2001 Ashta Nayak, Tao Art Gallery, Bombay Modern Indian Art, organised by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York;
1997 Image-Beyond Image, a travelling exhibition of works from the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan, at New Delhi, Kolkata, Banaglore and Mumbai;
1996 The Moderns, National Gallery Of Modern Art, Mumbai;
1995 Joint exhibition with Jogen Chowdhury, Gallery Raku, Japan;
1991 Remembering Kali Pundole, joint exhibition with M. F. Husain, V. S. Gaitonde, Akbar Padamsee and Krishen Khanna, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai;