Ritika Sharma (born 1994) received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts, specializing in painting, from College of Art, Delhi University in 2015 and Master’s degree from the same institution in the year 2017. She finds her interest in investigating the everyday practices, experiences, observations, local spaces and their involved politics through her mixed media works.
Ritika is recognized and awarded by India Artist’s Relief Fund by MAP and 1Shanthi Road in 2021, Khoj Support Grant by Khoj in 2020, Research Scholarship by Lalit Kala Academy in 2018, Young Artist Award by Sahitya Kala Parishad in 2017, Young Artist’s Scholarship by Ministry of Culture in 2016, and Contemporary Women’s Artist Awards by Artscape, Chandigarh in 2015. She has actively participated in numerous artist residencies, festival and workshops including; Coloring the World at Piramal Art Foundation in 2019, Youth Festival 2018, Moving Images- A course exploring Light, Movement and Moment organized by FICA and SAT in 2017, International Artist’s Residency at Art for Change Foundation in 2017. Ritika Sharma has shown her works at various group exhibitions; Call to Disorder at Serendipity Art Festival 2019, Engaging with Inequalities at Alliance Francaise de (Gurugram), Rigel at Orissa Modern Art Gallery (Bhubaneshwar), Shridharani Gallery, Kanoria Centre for arts, State Art Gallery and NGMA Bengaluru to list a few. Ritika is currently practicing at her studio in Delhi NCR.