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Dhruvi Acharya

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Dhruvi Acharya
Born1971 (age 52–53)
India
Alma materSophia Polytechnic,
Maryland Institute College of Art
Known forPainting
SpouseManish Acharya
Children2
Websitedhruvi.com

Dhruvi Acharya (born in 1971)[1] is an Indian artist known for her psychologically complex and visually layered paintings.[2] She has recently started creating ceramics.[3] She is based in Mumbai, India.[4]

Early life and education

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Dhruvi Acharya was born in 1971 in India and she was raised in Mumbai.[5] She attended Walsingham House School, a private girls school in Mumbai.[6]

Acharya received her undergraduate degree in 1993 in Applied Arts at the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai.[1][7] She went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 1998 from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] At MICA, she studied with painter Grace Hartigan.[5]

She was married to filmmaker Manish Acharya, with whom she had two sons. Manish Acharya died in 2010 in an accident.[8][9]

Work

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Acharya was featured in India Today news magazine in January 2005 as one of the 50 Indians under 35 years of age that are on the "fast track to success."[10]

She has exhibited with the Queens Museum of Art in New York, the San Jose Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum in Mumbai, Griffith University, Webster University in St. Louis, Brisbane and the former Spazio Oberdan in Milan.[11] In 2017 Acharya participated in the panel Post-Boom: Artists and Their Practices at the Asia Society India Centre in Mumbai.[12]

Acharya's special projects include "painting as performance", with Chitra Ganesh at the India Art Fair in 2015 and "JSW", a 32-foot mural for the Jindal Steel Works Center, Mumbai.[13] Installation titled "what once was, still is, but isn't..." where Acharya submerged the gallery room with cotton fabrics at Morte gallery, Delhi.[14][15]

Ever since the lockdown in India during Covid-19 pandemic, Acharya painted compulsively and used her watercolours[16] to generate funds and resources for those impacted through Chemould Prescott Road's online viewing room and her own social media handles

Awards

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Acharya has been the recipient of the 2014 YFLO Young Women Achiever's Awards.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Dhruvi Acharya - Biography". Artnet. Archived from the original on 11 March 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Painting, Still Lively - Slide 4 of 13". The New York Times. 2010. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  3. ^ Deodhar, Neerja (10 December 2023). "Ladies first". Mid-day. Archived from the original on 28 January 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  4. ^ Agrawal, Ravin (2009). "Transcript of '10 young Indian artists to watch'". TED. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  5. ^ a b Khandelwal, Payal (15 September 2016). "People: Dhruvi Acharya". The Floating Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  6. ^ "The Universality of the Human Experience". Magzter. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  7. ^ "Dhruvi Acharya". Saffronart. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  8. ^ Mishra, Manish D. (20 October 2013). "Take risks & trust your intuition: Dhruvi Acharya". Daily News and Analysis. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Losing her father and husband in one year, here's how this artist fought back". Elle India. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Young guns who represent the changing face of India". India Today. 21 March 2012 [31 January 2005]. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  11. ^ "India Arte Oggi - Spazio Oberdan Milano" [India Art Today - Oberdan Space, Milaan]. 1995-2015.undo.net (in Italian). 16 October 2007. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  12. ^ "Post-Boom: Artists and Their Practices". Asia Society. November 2017. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  13. ^ Chatterjee, Mortimer (7 December 2015). "There's accounting for taste". Mumbai Mirror. Archived from the original on 7 February 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  14. ^ "Filling a Vacuum". The Indian Express. 30 January 2020. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  15. ^ Deepak, Sukant (14 January 2020). "Dhruvi Acharya and art of dealing with loss". The Hans India. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  16. ^ Basu, Ritupriya (28 April 2020). "Artist Dhruvi Acharya's watercolours, which are up for sale, are helping tide over this crisis". Architectural Digest. Photography by Chemould Prescott Road. Archived from the original on 28 January 2024. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  17. ^ "YFLO Women Achiever's Awards 2014 -Reimaging India April 3, 2014". Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry. 3 April 2014. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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