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Rekha Rodwittiya is an Indian artist whose life and art have been guided by her feminist beliefs. She is known for drawing upon a wide variety of Indian painting traditions, and for working within existing genres while subverting or rejecting parts of those traditions that justify the subordination of women.

Born in 1958, in Bangalore, Rodwittiya completed her BFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda in 1981. She then received the Inlaks scholarship for her MA in painting from Royal College of Art, London in 1984. In 1988 to 1989, she was invited as guest artist to Konsthogskolan, Stockholm to deliver a series of lectures on Indian art.

Work
Rekha Rodwittiya's work deals with the complex issues of life and living, of accord and discord. She reacts pragmatically to socio-political attitudes that surround her, and this sensitivity is reflected in her art. She draws on a variety of Indian painting traditions, portraying women through the prism of personal experience and draws on every-day realities to fuel her art. In her own words, the artist explains: "The female figure as a central image is not arrived at by chance in my work. It is consciously placed (in my art) as an endorsement of female victory."

Exhibitions
Rodwittiya has had several international solo exhibitions, like the Air Gallery & Sakshi Gallery, London, UK; Sakshi Gallery at Art Folio, Singapore; Studio Barbieri, Venice, Italy; Apparao Galleries at Gallery 678 New York, USA and The Sakshi Gallery, Taipei. Her work has been exhibited within India at the Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai; Sakshi Gallery at Shridharani, Delhi; and Sakshi Gallery, Bangalore among others. Among her achievements also ranks the fact that her work Songs From The Blood Of The Weary, was shown in Geneva to commemorate 50 years of the United Nations.