Nitya Mehrotra

Nitya Mehrotra is an artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur based in Chicago. Her work exists at the intersection of animation, documentary, and trauma-informed care, using storytelling to transform personal testimony into public memory. She is the founder of Dezi and Stories by strangers.
Beyond digital storytelling, Mehrotra works in large-scale public art rooted in community. In 2024, she led a citywide train-wrap project in Chicago, featured in the New York Times, Time Out, and CBS. Her short films have been showcased at Oscar-qualifying festivals such as Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, and she has received the Best Cinematographer award at Shawna Shea, along with three Best Photojournalism awards from the Illinois College Press Association, and the New Artists Full Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.