Bio
Rai (b. 1993) is a visual artist whose practice navigates through making as a means to absorb, reflect, and speculate. In her work, found materials, research, memory, and fiction interweave to explore themes of spatial permeability. She has shown her work at Experimenter, Kolkata; Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa; HH Artspaces, Goa; Gallery Espace, New Delhi; VIS Nordic Journal of Artistic Research; Salzburg Summer Akademie, Austria; Hochschule Luzern, Switzerland; and the Sandberg Design Institute, Netherlands, among others. Rai has also received support from the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), Goa Open Arts, Shared Ecologies, Delfina Foundation, and the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bangalore.
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2020 MDes in Animation Film Design, National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India.
2016 BFA in Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.
2025 Fever, Artists for Artists, Experimenter Kolkata
2024 Archive of potential (Goan) Future, Goa Familia, Serendipity Arts Festival
2024 Search Party, part of Multiplay, Serendipity Arts Festival
2024 Feral Ecologies, HH Artspaces, Goa
2024 Are you my sister, Sister Library and Lovebirds Studio, Mumbai
2024 Court Painter's outing, Gallery Espace, New Delhi
2024 Open studio, Salzburg Summer Akademi
2024 Excerpts from Ngan and Nilnil, Goa Open Arts Festival
2023 999 Edition II, House 999, Goa
2023 Biom, New Delhi
2023 Zero to Hundred, HH Artspaces, Goa
2023 Finding home: At the nexus of ecological grief, artistic research and environmental justice, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst, Switzerland
2022 999 Edition I, House 999, Goa
2022 How I traveled in time and became the richest person on the planet - short film curated by The One Minutes and Sandberg Design Institute for 'Snack or Food Pill' - Sixty second science fiction
2021 Boundaries, Group Show, an exhibition by recipients of the Goa Open Arts Catalyst grant
2021 Surface Encounters and Strange Beings, HH Art Spaces, Goa
2020 Pulse - exhibit, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Booth, India Art Fair
2020 Plam Town - installation, Goa Open Arts Festival, Goa
2024 Shortlisted for TAF Emerging Artist Award - South Asia
2022-23 Arts Practice, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), Bangaluru
2021-22 Goa Open Arts CATALYST Grant, Goa
2021 FICA Emerging Artist Award, FICA extended platform, New Delhi and Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation
2020 Inlaks Fine Art Award, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
2018 Khoj Peers Share, Khoj, New Delhi
2024 Salzburg Summer Akademi, Austria
2023 Biom, Shared Ecologies and Maze Collective Studio, New Delhi
2021 Inlaks Fine Art residency, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
2020 Cona - Inbetweeners
2018 Kochi Biennale Comics Residency, Kochi
Documentation of visual culture, Visiting Faculty, National Institute of Design Haryana, 2023.
Environmental graphic design, Visiting Faculty, National Institute of Design Haryana, 2023.
Graphic narratives for scientific research, Guest Lecturer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2022.
Saturday Community Program sessions, The Learning Centre, Moira, January - April, 2024.