Richi Bhatia attained her Diploma in Curatorial Studies of Modern and Contemporary Indian art, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (2018), her M.F.A in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Vadodara (2015) and her B.F.A. in Painting from Surat School of Fine Arts, Veer Narmad, South Gujarat University, Gujarat (2013).

Richi’s works are a result of constant churning of thoughts through drawings into a subliminal expression of the pure form with nature and body as a reference. The size of the works comes through a conscious choice as it allows for an intimacy throughout the process of channeling a formal aesthetic into an experiential visual aesthetic. The grid creating a vista becomes like an airy matrix undulating logic from nature but taking it into a hypothetical structure of the universe as conceived of or rather conflated with the structure of the mind. The work is a morphological process where an image slowly traversing into something that's of pure form and non-representational picture plane as the ultimate field of vision wherein experience is finally translated into a purely optical sensation; a significant visual form devoid of further illusionistic reality, and even of any linguistic meaning. Her work ‘Untitled II’ has evolved through the daily studio practice, further sieving the thoughts and forms that surpass her daily interventions in the surroundings, ideating the notion of time and space.

Her works have been exhibited in group exhibitions at Gallery Isabelle, Dubai, UAE (2024); Bikaner House, New Delhi (2024,2022); Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus, Japan Society Gallery, New York (2023); VHC, Pune, India (2023); Alserkal Foundation, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE (2023); Art Centrix Space, New Delhi, (2022) and Lal Jadoo, Karachi, Pakistan (2020).

She is a recipient of the Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship (2013). She represented M.S.U., Faculty of Fine Arts, for Jenisys 2.0 cultural exchange program, Japan (2014).

Richi lives and works in Surat.