Amiya Ranjan Ojha (b.1998, Mogalpatana, Odisha) is a printmaker with a masters in printmaking from MSU, Baroda (2024). His work has been exhibited in the Students’ Biennale of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018, 2021). In 2023 he won the Odisha State Lalit Kala Academy Award for his work, Leaving, non-Living and the all India Gold Grant by Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation for his work, Midnight. 

Ojha’s practice centres around the lived experience of migration, displacement, and belonging. He comes from a family of woodworkers with his father being a carpenter and his grandfather, a dollmaker. His woodblock prints express a special affinity for and keen grasp of the medium. The printmaker has a natural understanding of the material and his inherited craft is evident in the fine lines, texture, and depth he establishes in his work.