Rajyashri Goody (b.1990) lives and works between the Netherlands and India. Her research interests include food and water politics, religion, literacy and literature, mobility and space-making in the context of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance in India. Her mediums are primarily paper pulp, clay, text, photography and printmaking.  

 

She completed her BA in Sociology at Fergusson College in Pune (2011), and an MA in Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK (2013). In 2023, she completed a two year residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. 

 

Rajyashri Goody’s work has been presented at Busan Biennale (2024); National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC (2024); Asia Now, Paris(2023); Jogja Fotografis Festival, Yogyakarta (2023); Rencontres de Bamako(2023); Galleryske, New Delhi(2022); Breda Photo (2022); Savvy Contemporary, Berlin(2022); and Goethe Institut, Mumbai (2021).