Born in 1978, Meetali Singh obtained MFA Graphic Arts from the MS University of Baroda and later did her BFA Painting from Banaras Hindu University The talented artist has won a National Cultural, Scholarship, HRD, Government of India (2004-06) She has been awarded INLAKS Fine Arts, New Delhi in 2006 apart from Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi Award, Ahmedabad (2005); Gold Medal, MS University, Baroda (2004), and Annual Award, Faculty of Visual Arts, BHU in (1999-2002) She has taken part in several important group shows The artist proclaims that she does not belong to any particular school of art, and does not believe in making a statement through art She tries to fathom ‘what I am as an individual’, albeit neither in any particular socio-political context nor in context of my immediate milieu Painting for her is a quest to answer self-posed queries She lives and works in Vadodara