Yukti Agarwal was born and brought up in the city of Mumbai, India. She graduated from the Bombay International School and then enrolled as a student in the Brown | RISD Dual Degree Program in 2019. At Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, she was a staff illustrator for The College Hill Independent, an Executive Member of the Brown | RISD Dual Degree Exhibition Committee, and has had work displayed on many on-campus and off-campus fine-arts exhibitions in and around Providence.