Sharada received her Higher Secondary Certificate from Jai Hind College, Mumbai in 1983[2][6] and obtained her BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1987.
[2][6] In 1986, Sharada along with four IIT batchmates codirected, acted in and choreographed for the English feature film, Nuclear Winter which won the Cannes Award in the Special Category for 1988.
[2][6] Sharada Srinivasan is a professor in the Programme of Heritage and Society in the School of Humanities at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India since 2012.
[10] Srinivasan was co-investigator on a 2010 UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI)[11] funded project with Professor S. Ranganathan and the University of Exeter's Dr Gill Juleff.
[14] In the International Year of Astronomy photo-montage exhibition 'Danse e-Toile: Nataraja et le Cosmos' curated by Sharada Srinivasan, scientist-dancer is featured at Alliance Française Bangalore Atrium.
It explores cosmic sensibilities and the art, metallurgy and science of the Nataraja bronze and from the evocative lens of both the Bharata Natyam and French contemporary dance forms.
She had a photo-exhibition in June 2008 at Alliance Française Bangalore entitled 'Cosmic Dance of Shiva' on art-science-dance perspectives related to South Indian bronzes and the Nataraja.