I arrived in the world of art very early because both my parents are artists,” says Biraaj Dodiya, daughter of artists Atul and Anju Dodiya. “Their friends are in creative worlds, and are painters, poets, educators, in cinema, and the likes. So my introduction to art, and to this way of living, of having a persistent practice, was through them.”
While she had been reading about art, drawing and painting, for a while, it was only through studying art—at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and New York University—that it became very rigorous. Although her training was focussed on painting, print-making and photography, in the last few years she has been more involved in drawing and sculptural installation art. “I find myself able to play with the language of painting the most, but when ideas come I find various ways of translating them.”
