Madhvi Subrahmanian was trained under Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith at the Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry and attained her Masters in Fine arts from USA. Madhvi has been a recipient of several awards including the Charles Wallace Grant and India Foundation of the Arts. Her sculptures and installations can be seen in several private and public collections such as the Mumbai Domestic Airport, India, Shigaraki Ceramic Sculptural Park, Japan, and Fule museum in Fuping, China. Madhvi's has been published in international journals, such as Ceramic Art and Perception, Nueve Keramik and in books like Smoke firing by Jane Perryman and Contemporary Ceramics by Emmanuel Cooper. Madhvi currently has a large installation titled "Ode to the Unknown" commissioned by the Singapore museum – Indian Heritage Center on display for 6 months. Madhvi lives and works in Mumbai and Singapore.