Vrishali Purandhare holds a bachelors in Sculpture and a post-graduate from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Shiv Nadar University. Her artistic practice draws from and builds upon Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud) and How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human (Edouardo Kohn). It has led to a serious engagement with communities and site-specific environments, through the material: visual, aural and tactile.

She served Delhi Public School, Pune and lead the 'Teachers for Art and Design' across four DPS's, Patna, Ludhiana, Coimbatore, and Pune. She attended a Summer School Exchange Programme titled Negotiating Space: Art and Dissent at Zurich University for Arts (ZHdK) in 2016, and have participated in a residency called Peers at Khoj International Artists Association in 2017.