Manmita Ray (b. 1996), a visual artist from Guwahati, Assam, completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Department of Painting at Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan between 2017 and 2023. 

 

Her works have been part of several group exhibitions including Edition 7 of Abhivyakti – The City Arts Project, an initiative by UNM Foundation, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad (2025); 100 Years of Kala Bhavana, Lalit Kala Akademi, Kolkata (2023); the Kala Bhavana BFA Final Display, Santiniketan (2023); and the Kala Bhavana BFA Final Display, online (2021) 

 

She has participated in multiple artist residency programmes including Monsoon Residency and Open StudioSpace Studio, Vadodara (2025) and IMAGINARIUM 3.0 - Residency and Open Studio, Emami Art, Kolkata (2024) under EA Locus in Focus – a long-term project conceptualised to support artists specifically from the Eastern and Northeastern regions of India. 

 

Manmita Ray lives and works in Vadodara, India.