Madhuri Bhaduri was born in 1958. She pursued a diploma in French at Alliance Francaise de Pune for in 1974 and went to pursuing a formal training in Masters of Art and painting from S.N.D.T women’s University, Mumbai in 1983. She further studied Finance and the Art Market at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art London in 2016.
Bhaduri began painting in 1977 and has predominantly worked in oils for the last three decades. She has also experimented in several mediums like acrylic, fiberglass,
sculptures and assemblages featuring metal scraps and leftovers from her art practice as well design work. The artists works have transposed from figurative to more abstract and landscapes in the years. For the artist abstraction is much deeper than a juxtaposition of colour or lines. According to Madhuri, abstraction helps understanding and working out the complexity of your own emotions. For her, painting is an emotional experiences in dialogue of brush and paint is warm, vivid, sensual and completely resounding with the message of her inner spirit where there is spontaneity, hope, joy and fulfillment.
Madhuri has been a successful artist for the past four decades, exhibiting her works since 1986 in major cities in India and Abroad. Her art works have featured in 36 solo shows and more than 70 group shows in India and abroad. Madhuri Bhaduri has over a dozen awards to her credit. Most recently, she has been honoured with Amrita Shergill RashtriyaKala Puraskar (2018) by the National Institute of Fine Arts (NIFA), New Delhi, and the Exceptional Woman of Excellence in Art Award from the Women’s Economic Forum (WEF) at The Hague, Netherlands earlier the same year. Her paintings are in the collections of many institutions and private collectors such as Jamshed Bhaba, Aditya Birla, Ajay Piramal, The Leela Hotel to name a few. The artist lives and works in Pune.