Prafulla Dahanukar (1934) is an award-winning Indian painter. She was born in Goa and raised in Mumbai. She completed 50 years of her career as a painter in 2007.
Prafulla studied fine art at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai and graduated with a Gold Medal in 1955. The Government of France awarded her a scholarship to study fine art in Paris in 1961. She returned to India after successful completion of her course.
Soon after her graduation in 1955 Prafulla won a Silver Medal for her painting in the Annual Exhibition of the Bombay Art Society. She then began have solo exhibitions regularly from 1956. On her completion of fifty years of her career as a painter, she was honoured by the Jehangir Art Gallery by sponsoring the Retrospective show of her painting through the five decades. While in Paris she held an exhibition of her paintings in 1961 and has since then participated in many international exhibitions in England, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Japan, Portugal, Iceland and France. She has exhibited solo 3 times in London, the first of which was sponsored by the High Commission of India in 1978. Citibank sponsored her show in 2006 in Ardean Gallery in Cork Street, London. In India she has had several individual shows in Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, and Chennai. Barclays Bank recently in November 2008 sponsored her exhibition in Dubai which was opened by the famous painter M.F.Hussein.