My practice moves through making as a way to absorb, reflect, and speculate. Found materials, research, memory, and fiction interweave to explore spatial permeability. Working across image, text, and site-responsive forms, I’m drawn to edges—where things blur, leak, or shift—revealing what’s fragile, layered, or quietly in flux.

Rai

Rai’s work includes images, text, and installations. They often explore states of inconsistency and suspension within themes of spatial negotiations, permeability, impression and erasure, recollection and amnesia. She integrates found materials, weathering, and elements of fiction, intertwining research with personal experiences to reflect on changing conditions of spaces or passages she inhabits. Her recent work revolves around estuarine geographies to consider an amphibious perspective and its possibilities, resonating with ambiguity, fluidity, and mutation.

Rai, b.1993; lives and works in Goa, India.

Education

2020 MDes in Animation Film Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

2016 BFA in Art History, Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India

Exhibitions, Talks, Presentations

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

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

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

Other

(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