Bhuri Bai is a groundbreaking contemporary Bhil artist from Pitol village on the Gujarat–Madhya Pradesh border, recognised as one of India’s most significant tribal painters. Born in the mid-1960s, she was the first woman from the Bhil community to transfer traditional Pithora wall-painting onto paper and canvas, pioneering a vibrant new idiom for her ancestral art. Encouraged early on by artist Jagdish Swaminathan at Bharat Bhavan, Bhuri Bai transitioned from mud-wall art to acrylics and has since exhibited widely in India, Europe, Australia and the United States. Her work has been featured in landmark exhibitions such as Now That the Trees Have Spoken (Pundole Gallery), Other Masters of India (Musée du Quai Branly, Paris) and Bhuri Bai — My Life as an Artist presented by MAP Academy. Bhuri Bai has received numerous honours, including the Madhya Pradesh Shikhar Samman, Ahalya Samman, Rani Durgavati Award, and India’s fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri (2021). She continues to live and work in Bhopal as a resident artist at the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum.