Raka Panda is a visual artist based in Ahmedabad. Shehas a BA Hons in Bengali Literature from Vidyasagar University, and a BFA and MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. Raka received an award from Emergent Art Space, for her curated (online) show ‘Calling Across the Distance’ 2020, was selected for a junior fellowship by the Ministry of Culture for the year 2018-2019 in painting, and placed 3rd in All India Women Artists’ Contemporary Art Exhibition (2013), Chandigarh, among other things. Her works have been displayed in many exhibitions including Myth, Memory & Marvellous Realities (2021), Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad.