Amita Bhatt received her MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting in 2009 and her BFA in Applied Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India in 1993. Recent solo exhibitions include Balancing Acts-Paintings by Amita Bhatt, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Downtown, Houston, Texas, September 2013, and Texas Tough-Depends Who You Ask, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas, June 2013. Bhatt’s work was included in the group show Southern Imagists: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, August 2013. Her work is in the private collection of Marilyn Oshman, Sharon and Gus Kopriva, John and Berthe Ford, Nancy Kienholz, Geetan and Tarun Tejpal, and The Ogden Museum of Southwest Art, among others.