Ritwika Ganguly

Ritwika Ganguly is a visual artist from Kolkata who is currently based in Baroda. Her BFA from Kala Bhavana, VBU, Santiniketan (2018-22) and MVA from Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda (2022-24) are both in painting, and she is keenly interested in video and animation. Her practice involves sketching, audio-visual documenting and taking notes of her observations, which she later refers to while working. Her choice of medium depends on the idea she works on, and it mostly includes drawings, watercolour wash, frame by frame animation, stop-motion, video and more recently, projection mapping.

Ritwika’s works reflect her experiences of people, places and the time she dwells in. She is curiously drawn toward the human subconscious gestures and everyday situations that fall on the borderline between the duality of judgments. Through her works, she aims to bring these gestures and images out of their quotidian context and allow their simplest, most negligible existence to approach people subjectively.

Ritwika’s work has been exhibited at the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale (2022), Anant Art, Delhi and Emami Art Kolkata (2024), as well as the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore (2024-25). Her animation shorts had been screened in the Emami Art Experimental Film Festival in 2024, ‘Lines Fiction’ hand-drawn animation filmrolle exhibition in Berlin and Erfurt, Germany (2024-25). She has also participated in short residency programmes with Kala Sakshi, Delhi (2023) and Tropical Lab 18,  Singapore(2024), a month-long residency in Flame University, Pune (2025), the Peers Residency with Khoj Studios, New Delhi and Dotwalk Ajitara Art Residency (2025). Ritwika’s interest in film and animation has also earned her an opportunity to work in collaboration with emerging musicians, animators and filmmakers in India.