Hemavathy Guha received her fine art education from the College of Arts and Crafts in Chennai, India. Throughout her career, she has held 18 solo exhibitions across various parts of India and has also participated in prestigious national and international exhibitions.
Her notable participation includes the third International Graphic art exhibition by AIFACS, New Delhi, the 20th International Biennale of Graphic Art in Slovenia, the International Biennale of Graphic Art in Bitola, the first International Biennale of graphic art, Maastricht, the Second International Mini Print Exhibition in Beograd, the third, fourth and sixth International Biennale of Graphic Art at Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal, the 2019 group exhibition on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi at Lalit Kala Akademi and the 2019 exhibition of women printmakers from India, in Poland and Mexico organized by Lalit Kala Akademi, "Transmutation"-a group exhibition at Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Center, the first International Print Biennale of 2018, the Asian Print Art Exhibition in Korea and Sharjah's International Biennale.
She has curated the Indian section of 3rd Jerusalem biennale, Israel (2017), felicitated on International Mother's Day at Hungarian information center, New Delhi (2017). She was invited to send works as one of the five artists from India for the Asian print art exhibition at Pusan city, Korea (1994).