Raghavendra Rao K.V. is a multidisciplinary, practicing visual artist originally from Bangalore, India, and currently living and working in Vancouver, Canada. His practice integrates public art, multi-media work, painting and graphic design. He has taught at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, in Bangalore, India for over 15 years and continues to teach and mentor at various institutions.

He has facilitated and coordinated numerous multi-disciplinary arts projects that were a part of international exhibitions including ‘Bombaysers’ at Lille, France in 2006 and Ars Electronica, at Linz, Austria in 2005.

He is a co-founder and Artistic Director of the South Asian Canadian Histories Association ("SACHA”) and has been involved in a number of public art and multi-disciplinary arts projects, including SACHA's Canada 150 project, "Trauma, Memory and the Story of Canada" in 2017.

As a part of his ongoing creative work, he has created a short digital video documentary titled “Forging a Utopia: Preetnagar (“City of Love”)” set in Punjab, India.