Biography
Vasudha Thozhur is a painter who is currently based in Baroda. She was born in Mysore in 1956
and educated at the College of Arts and Crafts, Madras, and at the School of Art and Design,
Croydon, UK. She worked in Madras for many years, between 1981 - 1997.
Besides participation in exhibitions in the country and abroad, institutional work has involved
lectures/teaching/workshops as visiting faculty at MSU, Baroda, NID in Ahmedabad, and IICD, Jaipur.
Two grants, between 2004 – 2006 and 2009 – 2011, from the India Foundation for the Arts,
Bangalore, supported a research project, 'The Himmat Workshops'. Among other things, the
project looked at ways of rooting art practice in ground and other realities as experienced in
India. It involved collaborating with Himmat, an activist organization based in Vatva,
Ahmedabad. She is currently working towards a comprehensive exhibition of the output.
Other interests include writing and music; text, both written and spoken, is incorporated in
various ways into her practice.
