Born and brought up in India, Samanta Batra Mehta currently lives and works in New York, USA.

The artist describes her work Incantation 1: "My drawings, along with found antiquarian imagery, harvested from forgotten encyclopedias and herbaria, are re-animated here as offering and incantation through meticulous layering, repetition, and intention. The viewer is invited into a vortex, a living yantra, a space held open for meditation."

Samanta Batra Mehta is a self-taught artist who creates multi-layered artwork that is a commentary on the human condition and the environment we inhabit. Living and working in New York for over a decade, her artworks have been exhibited in numerous museums including the Queens Museum of the Arts, Hudson River Museum, Hunterdon Museum, Taubman Museum of Art in the US, Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena and Museo d'Arte Orientale, and at ‘Reading Room’, a partner exhibition at the Kochi Biennale 2014.