Born in 1943 in New Delhi, Shobha completed her Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from College of Art, New Delhi in 1964 and her Sangeet Visharad at New Delhi in 1962. In her early phase, Shobha Broota worked in many genres and engaged with various mediums. She did portraitures, figurative and abstract paintings, and experimented extensively in abstract in printmaking before arriving at her philosophically rendered, meditative canvases. Broota's canvases have a tranquility and deceptive simplicity. Her abstract forms allow for meditative reverie untethered to the confines of narrative, her lines have rhythm and subtle movement, her colours, a rich resonance and her surfaces a texture that is complex yet moving.
Shobha Broota, teacher at Triveni Kala Sangam in Delhi and hailing from a family rich in artistic traditions is one of India's most well established contemporary artists. Her husband is the artist Rameshwar Broota and their daughter Pooja Iranna and her husband GR Iranna are artists as well.
She has participated in various exhibitions held in museums and galleries the world over namely in Tokyo, Cuba, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Italy, Hungry, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, South Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Mexico, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and Sydney, all curated by well known curators. The artist lives and works in New Delhi.
