Born in 1964 in Mumbai, India, Anju Dodiya earned her fine arts degree from the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai. Her work has been showcased in major exhibitions around the globe. Recent highlights include her participation in the Sharjah Biennale (2023); Conversations on Tomorrow at Sadie Coles, London (2022); Anatomy of a Flame at Frieze Cork Street, London (2022); Tower of Slowness at Galerie Templon, Brussels (2021); and Every Soiled Page curated by Sabih Ahmed at the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2020). Other significant exhibitions include The Air is a Mill of Hooks at Bikaner House, New Delhi (2018); Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life curated by Anita Dube at the fourth edition of the Kochi–Muziris Biennale (2018); Visions from India at Transforming Vision: 21st Century Art from the Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, Ohio, USA (2017); The Journey is the Destination: The Artist’s Journey between Then and Now at the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai (2016); Continuing Traditions at Musée de la Toile de Jouy, France (2015); and The Eye and The Mind: New Interventions in Indian Art at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing, China (2015). Notably, she completed the site-specific installation Throne of Frost at the Lakshmi Vilas Palace, Baroda (2007), and participated in New Narratives: Contemporary Art from India curated by Betty Seid at the Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago (2007); Making Worlds curated by Daniel Birnbaum at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice (2009); and the Fifth Beijing International Art Biennale at the National Museum of China, Beijing (2012). She will again participate in the Sharjah Biennale in 2023.

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