Ita (Sunandita) Mehrotra is a visual artist, arts researcher and educator. Ita  creates graphic narratives, non-fiction comics, illustrated text and animation, stemming most often from engagements within socio-political shifts around her, and in unravelling their particular histories. Her work has been published and exhibited by thewire.in , popula.org, Zubaan Books, Goethe Institute, Yoda Press, AdAstra Comix, among others. 

She is currently Director of Artreach India , a leading non profit working towards transforming the lives of children, young people and women from marginalised communities across India, through art. She lives and works in New Delhi, often travelling to remote villages and offbeat towns, for research and Artreach’s programmes.

Select Publications

Shaheen Bagh: A graphic Recollection, Yoda Press (Forthcoming, Summer 2021)

Drawing Home, self published (grant support: Gender Bender, Goethe Institute Bangalore)

Artful Challenging: An Interview with Orijit Sen, criticalcollective.com, 2019 (interview article)

Eyes That Follow (and others), popula.com, 2018-19 (short comics)

Metromorphosis, First Hand 1: Graphic Non-fiction from India, Yoda Press, 2016 (as part of the anthology of comics)

The Poet, Irom, Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fighting Back, Anthology of graphic stories , Zubaan and Goethe Institute Delhi, 2015

A School with A view, Women’s Feature Service, 2015 (article on create village school in Garhwal)

Forest Song: Sudesha, A Chipko Story, Booklet, Khoj International Artists Association + Norwegian Embassy Delhi, 2014

Behind the Exotica: Maha Kumbh 2013, Economic And Political Weekly, March, 2013 (an indepth study of the underbelly of the Maha Kumbh)