Rituparna Banerjee is an India-born vocalist, performance artist and painter from Kolkata. Her main field of practice is folk music of Bengal (Bhawaiya, Chatka, Jhumur, Dhamail, women’s songs and others).

First she started learning music (Hindustani Classical) at the age of 3 under guidance of her father Kalidas Banerjee,grandma Mira Sanyal and singing-guru Ashok Chakrabarty. In that time she also learned
Nazrulgeeti and Rabindra Sangeet. She has been performing at numerous both rural and urban fests and festivals in collaboration with various artists like Uttam Das (folk musician and song-collector from West Barddhaman), Netai Chandra Das (master of traditional percussion from Birbhum), Nimai ‘Khhepa’ Das Baul (Baul musician from Murshidabad), Subhabrata Sen (Kolkata-based dotara player) and others.

She has been learning different styles of Bengali folk music and Baul songs from Uttam Das, Anathbandhu Ghosh, Shyamsundar Das Baul, Purabi Bhattacharya and Jali Bagchi among others. Rituparna also completed her M.A. from Rabindra Bharati University with specialization in Bengali songs (Bangla Gaan),Kheyal and folk music (Lokasangeet).

Since 2013 she is an active member of Performance Independent (PI), a Kolkata- based art collective and one of the organizers of the annual Kolkata International Performance Art Festival (2013-2019) and Jyotishko Art Festival.

She participated in ‘Khoj’ International Art Camp in Musouri (2015), Basundha Festival in Bhubaneswar
(2017), ‘SURASIA South-South’ international artist-residency project in Morni Hills (2019) and 2nd International Art Fair in Murshidabad (2020).

Besides for the last few years Rituparna is also engaged in street-painting and wall- painting. In 2017 she gave a series of workshops to under-privileged children and teenagers in Chakkarmari, North Bihar, in collaboration with Project Potential.