Vasundhara Tewari Broota Indian, b. 1955
Born in 1955 in Kolkata, Vasundhara graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University with literature as her subject and studied art at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi. During 1982-84, she worked on a cultural scholarship awarded by the department of culture of the government of India under the mentorship of Rameshwar Broota.
Since 1979, she has been regularly taking part in all the major exhibitions organized by the Lalit Kala Akademi, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society and the Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi. Vasundhara got awards for her drawings in the All India Drawing Exhibition at the Chandigarh Museum in 1981 and 1985. She won an award at the Annual Exhibition of Art, AIFACS (1981) and got the Delhi State Award from the Sahitya Kala Parishad (1982), Sanskrit Award, New Delhi (1987), silver medal at the First International Biennial of Plastic Arts, Algiers (1987), second and third time the Delhi State Award, Sahitya Kala Parishad (1987 and 1992) and during 1988-90 Vasundhara worked on the Fellowship awarded by the Department of Culture, Government of India. In 2005, she won the GR8 Women Achievers award for Fine Arts.
Vasundhara held several solo shows in New Delhi, Chicago, Calcutta and Bombay. She participated in many important national and international exhibitions which include Contemporary Indian Art, Tokyo (1984); First Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal (1986); Second Biennial of Havana international Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1986); Sixth Triennale India, New Delhi (1989); and in the same year Indian women Artists at the National Gallery of Modem Arts, Algiers (1987); Festival of India, Russia (1987); Women artists of India in Bulgaria and Poland (1988); Tribute to Van Gogh, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (1990); Looking for Tree of Life: Journey in Contemporary Art at The Museum of Modem Art, Saitama (1992), and in the T.A.I.S., Tokyo (1992-93) Kala Sutra, Sanchit Art Gallery, Singapore 2015, Hong Kong 2015 and Dubai 2016, Dvaita Kanoria Centre of Arts, Ahemdabad, 2017, Festival of India, Bangkok 2017, Art Now 2018 at Rabindra Bhavan by Art Alive and Jerusalem Biennale 2019.
She has participated in group exhibitions Reflecting the Self by Gallery Threshold at Bikaner House, Delhi, Bringing Spaces to Life by Art Pilgrim (2022), The Creative Collective at Surrendra Paul Art Gallery, Sangeet Shyamala (2025).
In 1992, she co-directed a video film with Rameshwar Broota titled Shabash Bete which was screened at Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany (1992).
Her works are in many public and private collections in India and abroad, including National Gallery of Modem Art, New Delhi, Museum of Modem Art, San Francisco, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Chandigarh Museum, Sahitya Kala Parishad, New Delhi, Peabody Museum, USA, Jane and Kito de boer Collection, Dubai, Jehangir Nicholas collection, Mumbai, Masanori Fukuoka Collection, Tokyo and New York Art Scene, USA.
The artist lives and works in New Delhi.