Dhruvi Acharya

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 was awarded the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Kiran Puraskar in 2006, featured on the cover of India Today in 2005 and was recipient of the FICCI Young Woman Achievers award in 2013.

Acharya began exhibiting her works professionally in 1998 in the USA where she spent 10 years. She has held solo exhibitions with Chemould Prescott Road in Mumbai, Nature Morte in New Delhi and Kravets/Wehby in New York. Her major projects include a 32-foot mural for JSW in Mumbai, a 16-foot work for the Mumbai Airport and a “painting as performance” project in New Delhi. Her selected participations include shows at the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose, Chatrapati Shivaji Museum in Mumba...

1998 Master of Fine Arts, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore

1996 Post Baccalaureate in Fine Arts, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore

1993 Applied Arts, Sophia S B K Somani Memorial Polytechnic, MumbaiSolo Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS
2020 permeated absence, solo show, Nature Morte, New Delhi
2020 Painting in the Time of Corona, solo online exhibition, Chemould Prescott Road
2020 Evaporating Voices, solo show, Nature Morte, New Delhi

2016 after the fall, solo show, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
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, Mumbai & Nature Morte, New Delhi *
2006 two plus two equals, solo show, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai *
2004 figment, solo show, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai *
2002 Woman, Mother, Goddess, solo show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2001 Gomez Art Gallery, solo show, Baltimore
2001 Three Contemporary Painters: Nilima Sheikh, Manisha Parekh, Dhruvi Acharya, BosePacia Modern, New York
2000 Three person show, Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery, Kent
1999 East Meets West: Bari Kumar & Dhruvi Acharya, curated by M. A Greenstein, School 33, Baltimore *
1998 Three person show, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore
1998 MFA Thesis Exhibition, solo show, MICA Gallery, Baltimore
1996 Color, Culture & Consciousness, solo show, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 “Sub-Plots...