Rajyashri Goody
You are not yet broken
Ceramic, porcelain photographs
Variable dimensionsIs the water chavdar?
Installation view GALLERYSKE, New DelhiDid you open the door, or did you find it open for you?
Paper pulp, 480 sheets of paper porcelain
Variable dimensionsDid you open the door, or did you find it open for you?
DetailGive up your old habits
Screen print on paper porcelain
6 x 8.5 inchesDeeksha
Paper pulp, recipe booklets, clay slip
Variable dimensionsDeeksha
DetailDeeksha
Photograph fired into paper porcelain
Variable dimensionsUkadala
Ceramics
96 inches diameterEat with Great Delight
Photographs
Variable dimensionsEat with Great Delight
Photographs
Variable dimensionsWriting Recipes
Recipe booklets
Variable dimensionsToran
Ceramic
Variable dimensionsToran
DetailToran
DetailPicnic
Ceramic
96 x 20 inchesPicnic
DetailNo real good can be secured by over-modesty
(Performance)No real good can be secured by over-modesty
(Performance)No real good can be secured by over-modesty
(Performance)
Rajyashri Goody queries food and water politics, Ambedkarite Buddhist practices, literacy and Dalit literature, and mobility and place-making in the context of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance in India. She works primarily with paper pulp, clay, text, photography, and printmaking.
Recently, her work has been presented at Sharjah Biennial (2025); Busan Biennale (2024); National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC (2024); Asia Now, Paris (2023); Jogja Fotografis Festival, Yogyakarta (2023); Recontres de Bamako (2023); Breda Photo (2022); Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2022); and Goethe Institut, Mumbai (2021).
She has participated in several group exhibitions including Come Together, Peckham 24, London (2025); What are you looking for? curated by Brandy Carstens, Société, Berlin (2025); Vaanam, Dalit History Month, curated by Jaisingh Nageswaran, Chennai (2025); Kaghazi Pairahan curated by Akshay Mahajan & Devadeep Gupta, Arthshila, Goa (2025); Seed Stories curated by Abhijit Patil, Goethe Institut, Pune (2025); Mango Man, 193 Gallery, Paris (2025); Proposals for a Memorial to Partition curated by Murtaza Vali, 12 Gates, Philadelphia, USA (2023); The Table 01, a project by Fazal Rizvi, AAN Art Space & Museum & The Reading Room, Karachi, Pakistan (2023); 3 Invisible Until It’s Broken curated by Silke Schoenfeld, Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (2023); Is the water chavdar?, GALLERYSKE, New Delhi (2022).
In 2024, she was awarded residencies at Art Explora, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; and FD13, Minneapolis, USA. In 2023, she took part in the Majhi residency, Paris; and completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. She was the recipient of the 2021–2022 Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation grant for her time at the Rijksakademie; and in 2020, she received the Five Million Incidents grant from Raqs Media Collective and the Goethe-Institut, New Delhi.
Goody completed her BA in Sociology at Fergusson College in Pune in 2011 and an MA in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK in 2013.
The artist lives and works between Goa and Amsterdam.
