Surekha studied Fine Arts at Ken School of Arts and graduated in 1992 with a Master’s degree of Fine Arts at the Vishwabharanthi University, Santiniketan. 
 
Surekha has been exploring the possibilities of the video form as a self conscious choice. She negotiates the public and private realm with ease, transcending genres and locating the body as a site of contestation and appropriation. Her feminist aesthetics and cutting edge strategies move beyond the confinement of two-dimensionality, into a multidisciplinary approach. She uses photography and video to archive, document, perform and masquerade. Her recent body of work uses photography to archive and document, performance and masquerade. Images become memory and recollection of feminine spaces and gestures. 
 
Surekha has an ability to use material and media with conviction and uses domestic skills like stitching to explore an aesthetic way of living; and a craft with contemporary concerns relating to women's labour and life.  
 
The multi-media artist has won the Unesco-Aschberg Fellowship in 2001, the Charles Wallace Trust of India award and the AIFACS award, New Delhi