DHRUVI ACHARYA

Dhruvi 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. Acharya began
exhibiting her works professionally in 1998 in the USA where she spent 10 years.

Acharya has held solo exhibitions with Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai, Nature
Morte in New Delhi, Gomez Gallery in Baltimore and Kravets/Wehby in New York.
Her selected participations include shows at the San Jose Museum of Art, Griffith
University in Brisbane, BosePacia Modern in New York, National Gallery of Modern
Art in Mumbai and Queens Museum of Art in New York.

Acharya has been the recipient of the FICCI Young Woman Achievers award in 2013,
and was featured on the cover of India Today in 2005. The artist lives and works in
Mumbai.

Exhibitions
2020 permeated absence, solo show, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2020 Painting in the Time of Corona, solo show, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.
2020 Evaporating Voices, solo show, Nature Morte
2016 after the fall, solo show, Chemould Prescott Road
2015 Chitra Ganesh & Dhruvi Acharya: Painting As Performance, India Art Fair, New
Delhi

2010 Gasp! solo show, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York

2008 One Life on Earth, solo show, Chemould Prescott Road & Nature Morte *

2006 two plus two equals, solo show, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai *

2004 figment, solo show, Gallery Chemould *

2002 Woman, Mother, Goddess, solo show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

2001 Solo show, Gomez Art Gallery, Baltimore

2001 Three Contemporary Painters: Nilima Sheikh, Manisha Parekh, Dhruvi

Acharya, BosePacia Modern, New York
2000 Three Artists, Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent

1999 East Meets West: Bari Kumar & Dhruvi Acharya, Curated by M. A. Greenstien,
School 33, Baltimore *

1998 Miniature Format, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore

1998 MFA Thesis Exhibition, MICA Gallery, Baltimore

1996 Color, Culture & Consciousness, solo show, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore

* (exhibition catalog published, contact gallery)

Special Projects

2013 JSW, 7×32 foot mural for the Jindal Steel Works Center, Mumbai

2009 Mumbai City, artwork for Mumbai International Airport Art Project, Mumbai

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 The Future is not Fixed, Nature Morte, curated by Arjun Sawhney

2020 In Touch, Chemould Prescott Road

2020 A Tapestry of Time, Tao Gallery, Mumbai

2019 Outside / In, An Exhibition of Portraits, Vedehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

2019 Voiceover, Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi, curated by
Meena Vari

2018 Thought Bubble, Aicon Gallery, New York

2018 Modus Operandi, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

2018 Sensorium, Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts

2018 Elephant Parade, India

2017 Sub Plots – laughing in the Vernacular, curated by Meena Vari, National
Museum of Modern Art, Mumbai

2015 A Summer Mix, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai

2014 Aesthetic Bind: Floating World, curated by Geeta Kapur, Chemould Prescott
Road, Mumbai *
2014 Drawing 2014: 7 Decades of Indian Drawing, curated by Prayag Shukla,
Annapurna Garimella & Sindhura DM, Gallery Espace New Delhi
2014 Infinite, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai

2013 Mythopoetic: Women artists from Australia & India, curated by Marnie Dean,
Griffith University, Brisbane *

2013 Card-o-logy, curated by Jasmine Shah Varma, Samsara Art Gallery, Mumbai

2013 Re-picturing the Feminine, New & Hybrid Realities in the Art World, curated
by Marnie Dean, Gallery OED, Kochi

2011 Fragile, 1×1 & Paradox Gallery, Singapore

2011 Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern & Contemporary Art from India, San
Jose Museum of Art, California

2011 Of Humour, Wit and Satire, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi *

2011 Fabular Bodies: New Narratives in the Art of the Miniature, curated by Gayatri
Sinha, Chatrapati Shivaji Museum, Mumbai

2010 Bring me a Lion: An Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, curated by Dana

Turkovic & Jeffrey Hughes, Cecile R. Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis *

2009 Edible Woman, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York

2009 Chrysalid, Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Hong Kong

2009 Ethics of Encounter II, curated by Brian Curtin, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok *

2009 ‘Lo Real Maravilloso: Marvelous Reality, curated by Sunil Mehra, Gallery
Espace, New Delhi *
2009 The Miniature Format Show, Sans Tache Art Gallery, Mumbai *

2009 Vicissitudes of the Constructed Image, Tangerine Art Space, Bangalore

2009 Intimate Lives, curated by Anupa Mehta, The Loft & Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai
*

2009 Pixel Power, curated by Georgina Maddox, The Loft, Mumbai

2009 Summer Show, Kravets/Wehby, New York

2009 1×1 India on Canvas, The Loft, Mumbai

2009 Picture Postcard Project, Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai

2008 Shifting Terrains/Altered Realities, The Shrine Gallery & Gallery Empire, The
Arts House, Singapore *

2007 India Art Now: Between Continuity & Transformation, curated by Daniela
Palazzoli, Spazio Oberdan, Milan *

2007 Year 2007, Bucheon Contemporary, London

2005 Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, curated by Jaishri Abichandani &
Prerana Reddy, Queens Museum of Art, New York *

2005 In Short, curated by Jasmine Shah Varma, Hacienda Art Gallery, Mumbai *

2004 Ideas & Images VI – Art in Mumbai, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

2002 Words and Images, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai *

2002 Selections from New American Paintings, OSP Gallery, Boston *

2001 Shaken and Stirred, BosePacia Modern, New York

2001 Alienation, York Quay Center, Harbourfront, Toronto *

2001 Excerpts from My Diary Pages, curated by Sasha Altaf, Fine Art Company,
Mumbai *

2001 Art Frenzy, 12th Street Studios, Long island, New York

2000 Art of Modern India, BosePacia Modern Gallery, New York

2000 Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York

2000 Nayika, Tao Art Gallery, curated by Anupa Mehta, Mumbai *

2000 Diasporadics 2000, Riverside Church Theater, New York

2000 Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York

1998 13 Artists, 2 Galleries, juried by Nancy Miller Batty, Halcyon Gallery & Studio
302, Baltimore
1998 Artscape Annual, juried by Garry Sangster & Olga Viso, Maryland Art Place,
Baltimore

1998 The Divine Comedy: Images of Heaven, Hell and Limbo, Cade Center, Arnold

1997 Artscape Annual, juried by Thelma Golden, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore

1997 Selections from the Graduate Studios, curated by Eugenie Tsai, Meyerhoff
Gallery, Baltimore

* (exhibition catalog)

Talks/Presentations/Videos

2020 Presentation of Work, Kanoria Art Center, Ahmedabad, India

2020 Coronavirus ARTpocalypse: The Art World Responds, Part 5, YouTube series

2020 Dhruvi Acharya, A Chronicler in Paint, MASH India podcast

2020 Virtual Studio Visit, Advanced Painting Class, Union College, New York, USA

2017 Post-Boom: Artists and Their Practices, Asia Society India Center

2016 Projects/Process: #01, The G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture,

Mumbai

2016 V-IDEO ideas worth sharing, Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts

2016 Visiting Artist, Space 118, Mumbai

2009 Painting Workshop, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai

2005 Presentation of Work, Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts, National
Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

Honors & Awards

2014 FICCI YFLO Achiever’s Award, India

2006 Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Kiran Puraskar Award, India

2006 Nominated for The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, USA

2005 Included among Leaders of their Generation, India Today (cover), January
1996 International Students Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore

1992, 91, 89 Student of the Year Awards, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai

1992 Gold Medal for the Best Annual Exhibition, Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai
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