Born in Nandanoor, Reddy was a student of renowned philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Rishi Valley School and later Rabindranath Tagore’s alternative art college Visva-bharati, now Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan in West Bengal. In 1949, Reddy traveled to Europe to further his artistic education at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. Later, Reddy joined Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking studio Atelier 17, where he eventually became co-director. In 1976, Reddy moved to New York to establish the printmaking department at New York University and became deeply involved with Robert Blackburn’s workshop.