K. Laxma Goud was born in 1940 in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his diploma in Drawing and Painting from the Government School of Art and Architecture in Hyderabad in 1963. Following that, he studied Mural Painting and Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University in Baroda from 1963 to 1965. Goud demonstrates remarkable versatility across a variety of mediums, including printmaking, drawing, watercolor, gouache, pastels, glass painting, as well as bronze and terracotta sculpture. Throughout his extensive artistic career, he has seamlessly transitioned from one medium to another. Fellow artist T. Vaikuntam recalls in an interview that it was Laxma Goud who introduced him to the art of sketching, helping him recognise the potential of this medium.

Some of the noted group shows in which his works have been featured at Aicon Gallery, London and New York, in 2007; the 17th Anniversary Show at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata, in 2007; and Back to the Future at Gallery Espace, New Delhi, in 2006. Goud’s work has also been a part of the São Paulo Biennale, Brazil, in 1977, and Indian Art Tomorrow at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., in 1986.