Dhruvi Acharya

Dhruvi Acharya (born 1971) is an Indian artist known for paintings of strong psychological complexity and layered visual structure. She lives and works in Mumbai, where she was raised and where much of her career has unfolded. More recently she has also begun making ceramics.

She studied Applied Arts at the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai, graduating in 1993, and later earned a Master of Fine Arts in 1998 from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where she worked with the painter Grace Hartigan.

Her exhibitions include the Queens Museum of Art in New York, the San Jose Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, also in Mumbai, along with shows in Brisbane, at Webster University in St. Louis and at the former Spazio Oberdan in Milan. In 2005 India Today magazine named her among fifty Indians under 35 on the fast track to success. Her special projects include JSW, a 32-foot mural for the Jindal Steel Works Center in Mumbai.

During the Covid-19 lockdown she painted intensively and used the sale of her watercolours to raise funds for those affected. In 2014 she received the YFLO Young Women Achiever's Award.