Ritu Raj

Ritu Raj is an abstract painter, author and entrepreneur. He grew up in Delhi, the son of the art critic K.B. Goel, and painted as a child among the abstract artists his father wrote about.

Today he works from RituStudio in Phoenix, Arizona, where his signature technique, Organic Movement, lets thread take the place of the brush and makes gravity a collaborator. He has made more than 250 paintings and is represented by Jarrow & Goodman in Los Angeles.

Mathematics gave him a second grammar for the questions painting asks, and three decades of founding and building companies, among them Avasta, Wag Hotels, SideCar and Diamond Foundry, tested it at scale.

He is the creator of ArtGraph, a language for abstract art, and the author of The Shape of Seeing, on how abstraction arrives, and The Unalgorithmic Self, a philosophical inquiry into what AI cannot reach. Painting, writing and building are, for him, one inquiry.