Raktim Chatterjee is a painter and video artist based in Hooghly, West Bengal, India. He studied at the Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (BVA, 2004), and has exhibited continuously at major art institutions across India, including the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata and the Birla Academy of Art & Culture.

Working primarily in transparent watercolour on paper, Chatterjee builds images through multiple layers and deliberate abrasion — retaining rawness and instability in the finished surface. His practice examines the human condition through distorted and hybrid figures situated within ordinary domestic and social spaces. These bodies function as psychological states rather than representations, shaped by desire, fear, intimacy, consumption, and survival.

In 2012, he participated in the Glenfiddich Artist Program, an international artist residency held in Scotland, which brought together artists from across the world for an intensive period of research and production.