Ritwika Ganguly is an artist from Kolkata, currently based  in Baroda. Her bachelor’s from Kala Bhavana (2018-22) and  master’s from Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda (2022-24) are both  in painting and she is keenly interested in moving images, cinema  and theatre as well. Her practice involves sketching, photo and  video-documenting and translating them into watercolour wash  paintings and traditional animation. 

Ritwika’s works reflect her experiences of people, places  and the time she dwells in. Through this, she explores the way of  seeing and perceiving the human mind, its association with matter  and the complexity of socio-cultural conditioning in the context of  visual symbols and their existence in time and space. Ritwika aims  to bring these symbols out of their quotidian context and allow  their simplest, negligible existence to approach people in their  own way. 

She tends to recognise the importance of ignorable  innocuous moments, quite spontaneously and goes towards  working on them in a time-consuming process to be still with the  fleeting part of an unknown narration. Ritwika has been  participating in exhibitions in India and abroad, including the  Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale (2022), Anant Art, Delhi and  Apre Art House, Mumbai, as well as the Hong Kong Baptist  University and the Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore. She also  participated in short residency programmes with Kala Sakshi, Delhi  and Tropical Lab 18, Singapore. Ritwika’s interest in animation has  also earned her an opportunity to work in collaboration with the  eminent animation filmmaker Prakash Moorthy.