Mahima Bhayana is a contemporary artist who pours her state of being on canvases or any other medium readily accessible. Her strong figurative strokes derive the boundaries where she plays with her lines, intricate detailing and colour that communicate her emotions and thought process. As a National Fellow, she pursued training and research on techniques of miniature painting. Born in 1988, she has spent four years in Jaipur extensively training, researching and educating in techniques of this ancient art form.

Bhayana, has exhibited in various museums and galleries Nationally and Internationally including The National Gallery of Modern Art, India; Lalit Kala Akademi, India; Jehangir Art Gallery Mumbai, India; Traverse Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom; IAM, A Bus Art Museum exhibition in Los Angeles, U.S.A and Ajuntamento de’Alella, Spain.

Her works are in the collections of Lalit Kala Art Akademy, New Delhi, The National Gallery of Modern Art and Dhoomimal Gallery. She lives and works between Jaipur and Delhi. Presently she is collaborating on an initiative called the Reimagining Miniatures, which looks at both traditional and contemporary practices of miniature artists of South East Asia.