Ráchel Jutka, laureate of the Oskár Čepan Award 2025, is a painter and visual artist working in Košice. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art in northern Scotland (Moray School of Art; University of the Highlands and Islands, UK). She completed her master’s degree at the Painting Studio in Košice (Faculty of Arts, TUKE) under the supervision of doc. Mgr. art. Oto Hudec, ArtD. She currently exhibits her work regularly in Slovakia and abroad, in group and solo exhibitions, e.g. Art Is Not a Competition But I’m Winning, 2025, GJK, Trnava; New Contemporaries 2023, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Bold Red Line, 2025, VUNU, Bratislava; Your Water Our Water, 2024, DELPHI_space, Freising & aqb Project Space, Budapest & U10 Space, Belgrade; Soil Not Oil, 2025, Slovak Institute in Prague, and others.

Ráchel Jutka's residence is supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.