Dhruvi Acharya’s work focuses on the psychological and emotional aspects of an urban woman’s life in a world teeming with discord, violence and pollution. Employing a subtle, dark and wry humour, the work draws viewers into a world where thoughts are as visible as “reality”, and where the protagonists live and metamorphose by the logic of that world.

Acharya received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, USA in 1998, and completed her Post Baccalaureate in 1996 from the same college. She began exhibiting her works in 1998 in the USA, where she spent 10 years. Acharya has held solo exhibitions with Nature Morte, New Delhi; Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Gomez Gallery, Baltimore; and Kravets/Wehby, New York. Her selected participations include exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art; Griffith University, Brisbane; BosePacia Modern, New York; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai; Chatrapati Shivaji Museum, Mumbai; and Queens Museum of Art, New York.

Acharya received the FICCI YFLO Achievers award in 2014, and was nominated for The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, USA in 2006.

Mumbai monsoon, 2000, 38×38cm

2000