Vatsya Padia (b. 1999) is a visual artist from Vadodara, Gujarat, whose practice combines painting and archival print, bringing together photographs from personal experiences and everyday observations. Using archival prints as a starting point, she develops layered works through painting, omission, and painterly illusion, allowing distinct visual identities to coexist and gradually form a shared composition without losing their individual presence.

Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, her works remain open to different interpretations shaped by the viewer's own memory and perception. Beginning with photographs drawn from personal encounters and everyday observations, she uses painting to extend the image rather than complete it, allowing the archival print and painted surface to exist in conversation and shape one another.

Padia completed her Bachelor of Visual Art in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, The M.S. University of Baroda, in 2021. She has taken part in various group shows, including W18 (2018), Aakruti Kala Sansthan, Bhilwara, Rajasthan; Value Beyond 2.0 (2022), Gallery Veda, Chennai; Contemporary Signatures (2022), Monalisa Kalagram, Pune; the 16th edition of The Baroda March (2023), curated by Rukshaan Krishna at The Stainless Steel, Delhi; Kodachrome Memories (2024) by MAG Contemporary, Delhi; Architecture As Muse (2025) by Sameksha Art Gallery, Delhi; and Momentum (2026) by Interspace and 079 Stories, Ahmedabad, among others. She presented her solo show, "My Dream, My City" (2022), with Limited Edition Gallery on The Art Platform India (online), and undertook the Winter Residency '23 (2022) at Space Studio Baroda, Vadodara. Padia has won the Best Women Artist Award for W18 (2018) by Aakruti Kala Sansthan, Bhilwara, Rajasthan.