Kirtika Kain is an artist practicing on Darug Country, NSW Australia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016 and was awarded the Bird Holcomb Scholarship to complete her Master in Fine Art in 2018 at National Art School, Sydney. She was a recipient of the Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award in 2017, the Art Incubator Grant and Dyason Bequest, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and a finalist in the Churchill Fellowship and numerous art prizes including Blacktown Art Prize (2017, 2019). Kirtika has been a finalist in the Create NSW Emerging Artist Fellowship at Artspace, a recipient of the Parramatta Artist Studio (2020, 2024) and an artist in residence at the British School at Rome (2019) and the Amant Siena Summer Residency (2022). Kirtika has recently exhibited in the projects Wake Up Call for my Ancestors, Oyoun, Berlin (2022) and Plea to the Foreigner, African Biennale of Photography, Mali, (2022) collaborating with Dalit artists and thinkers within India and the diaspora. She has recently shown a solo exhibition of works titled Blue Bloods at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (2023) as well as a new commission for the 24th Biennale of Sydney in 2024.