Rajyashri Goody’s art practice focuses on food and water politics, caste and religion, literacy and literature. She is interested in creating space and time for thinking through everyday instances of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance, and how elements like food, nature, and language are actively used as tools to enforce caste rules for generations. Goody incorporates various mediums in her practice – text, voice, paper pulp, ceramics, photography, printmaking, video and installation.
Goody lives and works between the Netherlands and India. 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.
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).
