Born in Bombay in 1958., She graduated in visual communication from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

She has held solo exhibitions at Pradarshak Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1995. Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2008. - Jewel of India, Mumbai, 2001. 'Living Between The Times' , Mayfair, London, UK and 'Memento Mori', Art Musings, Mumbai, 2008.

She has participated in numerous group exhibitions from 1995 all over India as well as group exhibitions in New York, USA, Japan, UAE and Russia. She has participated in numerous international art camps in Singapore, Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and India.
Milburn has been awarded the E. Schlesinger prize for the most promising Indian artist in 1999 and L'Oreal Femina Woman Artist of the Year 2013.

It is virtually impossible to categorize Milburn Cherian’s paintings into a particular cultural, chronological, or indeed even symbolic single perspective or style, except to point to archetypal truths embedded within an external visual Indian extravaganza. So one hesitates to know from which angle to begin to write about the multi-leveled shock of discovery upon first encounter with her paintings and again and again upon return.The initial effect of conglomerate, multiple, individual shapes offers the viewer, who is intent on entering this highly complex world of interacting forms, colours and symbols, the possibility of initiating, step by step, detail by meticulously executed detail, a journey which leads on towards an ultimately unified, single synthetic whole.
The individual painting will ultimately rely on an underlying invisible diagram.

She Lives and works in Mumbai.