Ita Mehrotra is a visual artist, researcher and educator based out of New Delhi. She creates non-fiction comics, graphic narratives and illustrated text stemming most often from engagements within socio-political shifts around her, and in unravelling their particular histories. Her graphic books include Uprooted, A Graphic Account of the Struggle for Forest Rights (Westland Books, 2025) and Shaheen Bagh, A Graphic Recollection (Yoda Press, 2021). Her comics and illustrated stories have been published and exhibited widely over the past decade, with Zubaan Books, Goethe Institute Delhi and Bangalore, Adastra Comix, The Wire, Scroll, Fumetto Festival Luzern, Khoj Artists Association, among others.
Ita leads visual art programmes with rural schools and libraries across India. She has been visiting faculty at Ashoka University between 2021-2025 teaching courses in graphic non-fiction. Ita has received grant awards from Prohelvetia Swiss Arts Council, Goethe Institute Bangalore, Singapore International Foundation and the Swedish Institute, among others. She has an MPhil from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU and a Masters in Visual Arts from Ambedkar University Delhi.
