Born in Goa, Francis Newton Souza joined the JJ School of Art, Bombay but was soon expelled for organising a strike. He was a founder member of the Progressive Artists Group which held its first exhibition in Bombay, 1948. Soon after he left for London where he supported himself through journalism. His articles appeared in many prestigious magazines and his autobiography Words and Lines was published in 1959. He had his first successful solo show at Gallery One , London in 1961and has since contributed in numerous exhibitions worldwide including the MoMA, Oxford(1982), Royal Academy of Arts, London (1982), Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (1982) and Halle de l’lle, Geneva (1986). Souza died in 2002.

Education
1937-39 Studied at St. Xavier's School, Bombay.
1940-45 Studied at J.J. School of Art, Bombay.
1949-55 Studied at Central School of Art, London.
Studied at cole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris.
 
Exhibition
1948
Burlington House Gallery, London.
1949
Progressive Art Group Exhb., Bombay Art Society Salon, Bombay. 1951 Indian Embassy, London.
1961
Gallery One, London.
1963
Taj Gallery, Bombay.
1965
Art Now in India, London. 1967 Guggenheim Foundation, USA. 1968 London Arts Gallery, Detroit, USA.
1977
`Commonwealth Artists of Fame`, London.
1982
`India: Myth and Reality`, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. 1987 Coups de Coeur, Halles de L`Ile, Geneva.
1993
`Souza, 1940`s-1990`s`, Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi. 1999 `The Demonic Line`, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2003
Manifestations, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, World Trade Center, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2004
Manifestations II, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai and Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
2005
Manifestations III, organised by Delhi Art Gallery, Nehru Center, Mumbai and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
 
Collections
Baroda Museum, Baroda.
Wakefield City Art Gallery, New Delhi.
Methodist Church Council, New College, Oxford.
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
Tate Gallery, London.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Jane and Kito de Boer, Dubai.
Neville Tuli, Bombay.
Nitin Bhayana, New Delhi.
Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi.
 
Awards
1960
Received Govt. Scholarship, on the recommendation of the British Council.