Bandana Kumari acquired her degree in painting from The College of Arts and Crafts, Patna University. She received The Mahua Art Gallery & HK Kejriwal foundation award, the Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation award and the Lalit Kala Academy Lucknow award to jump start her art journey.
Her subjects include birds, animals, flower and natural subjects. In her painting she presents women as the strongest creature of God, depicted as a bird or aboard a lion or elephant, with an imagined masculine aura. Her paintings are her own ode to feminism, but with a bright almost glaring colour palette. Her humour filled titles, and a hint of satire with the juxtaposing of animal heads on human bodies - add a playfulness to her creations.