Having well known painters Manu and Madhavi Parekh for parents, Manisha Parekh grew up surrounded by paints and brushes. She formalized her artistic upbringing with her studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at M.S. University in Baroda, and at the Royal College of Art, London on an INLAKS scholarship. Today, Parekh has several of her own exhibitions under her belt, whether of her minimal, skillfully executed works in ink and gouache, her intricate layered pieces on board, or her more ambitious works in the area of conceptual, site-specific installations.

Parekh has exhibited extensively in India, Germany and the United Kingdom. She has also completed a stint as a teacher teaching at the M. S. University in...