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{{short description|Indian artist|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Dhruvi Acharya
| honorific_suffix =
| alt = Dhruvi Acharya
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1971}}
| birth_place = India
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater = [[Sophia Polytechnic]],<br> [[Maryland Institute College of Art]]
| known_for = Painting
| spouse = [[Manish Acharya]]
| children = 2
| website = {{URL|dhruvi.com}}
}}

'''Dhruvi Acharya''' (born in 1971)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Dhruvi Acharya - Biography |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/dhruvi-acharya/biography |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311023115/http://www.artnet.com:80/artists/dhruvi-acharya/biography |archive-date=11 March 2015 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=[[Artnet]]}}</ref> is an [[India|Indian]] artist known for her psychologically complex and visually layered paintings.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2010 |title=Painting, Still Lively - Slide 4 of 13 |url=http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/25/arts/20100328-painting-slideshow_4.html?_r=0 |url-status=live |archive-url=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 |archive-date=8 June 2021 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> She has recently started creating [[Ceramic|ceramics]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Deodhar |first=Neerja |date=10 December 2023 |title=Ladies first |url=https://www.mid-day.com/sunday-mid-day/article/ladies-first-23324175 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128102733/https://www.mid-day.com/sunday-mid-day/article/ladies-first-23324175 |archive-date=28 January 2024 |access-date=9 June 2024 |work=[[Mid-day]]}}</ref> She is based in [[Mumbai]], [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Agrawal |first=Ravin |date=2009 |title=Transcript of '10 young Indian artists to watch' |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/ravin_agrawal_10_young_indian_artists_to_watch/transcript |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101191630/http://www.ted.com:80/talks/ravin_agrawal_10_young_indian_artists_to_watch/transcript? |archive-date=1 November 2014 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=[[TED (conference)|TED]] |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Dhruvi Acharya was born in 1971 in India and she was raised in [[Mumbai]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Khandelwal |first=Payal |date=15 September 2016 |title=People: Dhruvi Acharya |url=http://thefloatingmagazine.com/people-dhruvi-acharya/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812084312/http://thefloatingmagazine.com/people-dhruvi-acharya/ |archive-date=12 August 2020 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=The Floating Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref> She attended [[Walsingham House School]], a private girls school in Mumbai.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=The Universality of the Human Experience |url=https://www.magzter.com/articles/32/218501/58f3b7736c567 |url-access=subscription |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017071025/https://www.magzter.com/articles/32/218501/58f3b7736c567 |archive-date=17 October 2019 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=[[Magzter]]}}</ref>

Acharya received her undergraduate degree in 1993 in Applied Arts at the [[Sophia Polytechnic]] in Mumbai.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dhruvi Acharya |url=https://www.saffronart.com/artists/dhruvi-acharya |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121145728/https://www.saffronart.com/artists/dhruvi-acharya |archive-date=21 November 2023 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=Saffronart}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=":0" /> At MICA, she studied with painter [[Grace Hartigan]].<ref name=":1" />

She was married to filmmaker [[Manish Acharya]], with whom she had two sons. Manish Acharya died in 2010 in an accident.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mishra |first=Manish D. |date=20 October 2013 |title=Take risks & trust your intuition: Dhruvi Acharya |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-take-risks-trust-your-intuition-dhruvi-acharya-1905993 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121151229/https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-take-risks-trust-your-intuition-dhruvi-acharya-1905993 |archive-date=21 November 2023 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=[[Daily News and Analysis]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Losing her father and husband in one year, here's how this artist fought back |url=https://elle.in/article/dhruvi-acharya-on-how-her-sense-of-absurd-helped-her/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122014319/https://elle.in/article/dhruvi-acharya-on-how-her-sense-of-absurd-helped-her/ |archive-date=22 November 2023 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=[[Elle (India)|Elle India]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

== 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."<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 March 2012 |orig-date=31 January 2005 |title=Young guns who represent the changing face of India |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20050131-young-leaders-who-represent-the-changing-face-of-india-788368-2005-01-31 |url-status=live |archive-url=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 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |access-date=17 October 2019 |website=[[India Today]] |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 October 2007 |title=India Arte Oggi - Spazio Oberdan Milano |trans-title=India Art Today - Oberdan Space, Milaan |url=http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/60772 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121145728/http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/60772 |archive-date=21 November 2023 |access-date=21 October 2020 |website=1995-2015.undo.net |language=it}}</ref> In 2017 Acharya participated in the panel ''Post-Boom: Artists and Their Practices'' at the [[Asia Society]] India Centre in Mumbai.<ref name="Asia Society">{{cite web |date=November 2017 |title=Post-Boom: Artists and Their Practices |url=https://asiasociety.org/india/events/post-boom-artists-and-their-practices |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206045603/https://asiasociety.org/india/events/post-boom-artists-and-their-practices |archive-date=6 February 2024 |access-date=30 October 2021 |website=[[Asia Society]] |language=en}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chatterjee |first=Mortimer |date=7 December 2015 |title=There's accounting for taste |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/mortimer-chatterjee/Theres-accounting-for-taste/articleshow/50071142.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207152338/https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/mortimer-chatterjee/Theres-accounting-for-taste/articleshow/50071142.cms |archive-date=7 February 2024 |access-date=21 October 2020 |website=[[Mumbai Mirror]] |language=en}}</ref> Installation titled "what once was, still is, but isn't..." where Acharya submerged the gallery room with cotton fabrics at Morte gallery, Delhi.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 January 2020 |title=Filling a Vacuum |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/dhruvi-acharya-exhibition-permeated-absence-6241626/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206045735/https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/dhruvi-acharya-exhibition-permeated-absence-6241626/ |archive-date=6 February 2024 |access-date=20 March 2021 |website=[[The Indian Express]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Deepak |first=Sukant |date=14 January 2020 |title=Dhruvi Acharya and art of dealing with loss |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/featured/womenia/dhruvi-acharya-and-art-of-dealing-with-loss-597008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206045735/https://www.thehansindia.com/featured/womenia/dhruvi-acharya-and-art-of-dealing-with-loss-597008 |archive-date=6 February 2024 |access-date=20 March 2021 |website=[[The Hans India]] |language=en}}</ref>

Ever since the lockdown in India during Covid-19 pandemic, Acharya painted compulsively and used her watercolours<ref>{{Cite news |last=Basu |first=Ritupriya |date=28 April 2020 |others=Photography by Chemould Prescott Road |title=Artist Dhruvi Acharya's watercolours, which are up for sale, are helping tide over this crisis |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/chemould-prescott-road-mumbai-open-sale/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128103326/https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/chemould-prescott-road-mumbai-open-sale/ |archive-date=28 January 2024 |access-date=9 June 2024 |work=[[Architectural Digest]]}}</ref> to generate funds and resources for those impacted through [[Chemould Prescott Road|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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 April 2014 |title=YFLO Women Achiever's Awards 2014 -Reimaging India April 3, 2014 |url=http://www.ficciflo.com/events/yflo-women-achievers-awards-2014-reimaging-india-april-3-2014/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024234831/http://www.ficciflo.com/events/yflo-women-achievers-awards-2014-reimaging-india-april-3-2014/ |archive-date=24 October 2020 |access-date=21 October 2020 |website=[[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Dhruvi-Acharya/33AF414E61E7DF69/Artworks Images of Acharya's art] on MutualArt

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