Dhruvi Acharya Explained
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
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.[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. At MICA, she studied with painter Grace Hartigan.
She was married to filmmaker Manish Acharya, with whom she had two sons. Manish Acharya died in 2010 in an accident.[8] [9]
Work
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
Acharya has been the recipient of the 2014 YFLO Young Women Achiever's Awards.[17]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Dhruvi Acharya - Biography . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20150311023115/http://www.artnet.com:80/artists/dhruvi-acharya/biography . 11 March 2015 . 17 October 2019 . Artnet.
- Web site: 2010 . Painting, Still Lively - Slide 4 of 13 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210608034118/http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/25/arts/20100328-painting-slideshow_4.html?_r=0 . 8 June 2021 . 17 October 2019 . The New York Times.
- News: Deodhar . Neerja . 10 December 2023 . Ladies first . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240128102733/https://www.mid-day.com/sunday-mid-day/article/ladies-first-23324175 . 28 January 2024 . 9 June 2024 . Mid-day.
- Web site: Agrawal . Ravin . 2009 . Transcript of '10 young Indian artists to watch' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20141101191630/http://www.ted.com:80/talks/ravin_agrawal_10_young_indian_artists_to_watch/transcript? . 1 November 2014 . 17 October 2019 . . en.
- Web site: Khandelwal . Payal . 15 September 2016 . People: Dhruvi Acharya . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200812084312/http://thefloatingmagazine.com/people-dhruvi-acharya/ . 12 August 2020 . 17 October 2019 . The Floating Magazine . en-GB.
- Web site: The Universality of the Human Experience . subscription . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20191017071025/https://www.magzter.com/articles/32/218501/58f3b7736c567 . 17 October 2019 . 17 October 2019 . Magzter.
- Web site: Dhruvi Acharya . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231121145728/https://www.saffronart.com/artists/dhruvi-acharya . 21 November 2023 . 17 October 2019 . Saffronart.
- Web site: Mishra . Manish D. . 20 October 2013 . Take risks & trust your intuition: Dhruvi Acharya . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231121151229/https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-take-risks-trust-your-intuition-dhruvi-acharya-1905993 . 21 November 2023 . 17 October 2019 . . en.
- Web site: Losing her father and husband in one year, here's how this artist fought back . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231122014319/https://elle.in/article/dhruvi-acharya-on-how-her-sense-of-absurd-helped-her/ . 22 November 2023 . 17 October 2019 . . en-US.
- Web site: 21 March 2012 . 31 January 2005 . Young guns who represent the changing face of India . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180718114930/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20050131-young-leaders-who-represent-the-changing-face-of-india-788368-2005-01-31 . 18 July 2018 . 17 October 2019 . . en.
- Web site: 16 October 2007 . India Arte Oggi - Spazio Oberdan Milano . India Art Today - Oberdan Space, Milaan . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231121145728/http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/60772 . 21 November 2023 . 21 October 2020 . 1995-2015.undo.net . it.
- Web site: November 2017 . Post-Boom: Artists and Their Practices . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240206045603/https://asiasociety.org/india/events/post-boom-artists-and-their-practices . 6 February 2024 . 30 October 2021 . . en.
- Web site: Chatterjee . Mortimer . 7 December 2015 . There's accounting for taste . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240207152338/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/mortimer-chatterjee/Theres-accounting-for-taste/articleshow/50071142.cms . 7 February 2024 . 21 October 2020 . . en.
- Web site: 30 January 2020 . Filling a Vacuum . subscription . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240206045735/https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/dhruvi-acharya-exhibition-permeated-absence-6241626/ . 6 February 2024 . 20 March 2021 . . en.
- Web site: Deepak . Sukant . 14 January 2020 . Dhruvi Acharya and art of dealing with loss . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240206045735/https://www.thehansindia.com/featured/womenia/dhruvi-acharya-and-art-of-dealing-with-loss-597008 . 6 February 2024 . 20 March 2021 . . en.
- News: Basu . Ritupriya . 28 April 2020 . Photography by Chemould Prescott Road . Artist Dhruvi Acharya's watercolours, which are up for sale, are helping tide over this crisis . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240128103326/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/chemould-prescott-road-mumbai-open-sale/ . 28 January 2024 . 9 June 2024 . Architectural Digest.
- Web site: 3 April 2014 . YFLO Women Achiever's Awards 2014 -Reimaging India April 3, 2014 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201024234831/http://www.ficciflo.com/events/yflo-women-achievers-awards-2014-reimaging-india-april-3-2014/ . 24 October 2020 . 21 October 2020 . . en-US.