Rai
b.1993
Education
2020 MDes in Animation Film Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
2016 BFA Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
Support
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, New Delhi and Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation
2020 Inlaks Fine Art Award, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
2018 Khoj Peers Share, Khoj, New Delhi
Residencies
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
2018 X-Square, New Delhi
2016 Studio Kokaachi, Kochi
Exhibitions, Talks, Presentations
2024 Multiplay, Serendipity Arts Festival, 2024 (upcoming)
2024 Feral ecologies and deep pasts, HH Art spaces, Goa (upcoming)
2024 Ancestral Futures, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, 2024 (upcoming)
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
2023 Viva Vaddo, Goa
2022 999 Edition I, House 999, Goa
2022 As we are, 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.
2020 Altodi - Poltodi - essay performance, Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts
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 Pulse installation, Lines of Inquiry, Curated by National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
2020 Plam Town - installation, Goa Open Arts Festival, Goa
2019 EyeMyth Media Arts Festival, Speaker, Mumbai
Writing/ Publishing
(Untitled Book) written and designed by Rai in collaboration with Project 39A, NLUD (Upcoming)
Altodi Poltodi - essay, VIS Nordic Journal of Artistic Research #9 - Of Memory and Public Space, March 2023
Pushkar - Part of Longform Anthology II, Penguin India, March 2022
Pulse zine - Self Published, Backlogbook, 2019
Workshops/Teaching
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