Rajyashri Goody was born in 1990 in Pune, India. She is currently based in Goa. 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. In 2023, she completed a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
Her research interests include food and water politics, religion, literacy and literature, mobility and place-making in the context of caste-based violence and Dalit resistance in India. Her mediums include installation, ceramics, paper pulp, text, photographs, printmaking, and performance.
Earlier this year, Goody was part of a tribute to Koyo Kouoh, a Poetry Caravan procession at the Venice Biennale, and Iniva’s Post-National Digital Pavilion in collaboration with the British Council.
Her work has previously been presented at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa (2025, 2019); Bukhara Biennial (2025); Sao Paulo Biennial (2025); Sharjah Biennial (2025); Busan Biennial (2024); National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC (2024); Asia Now, Paris (2023); Jogja Fotografis Festival, Yogyakarta (2023); Recontres de Bamako (2023); Galleryske, New Delhi (2025,2022); Breda Photo (2022); Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2022); Goethe Institut, Pune and Mumbai (2025, 2021).
Rajyashri Goody (b. 1990) 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. What follows is an abbreviated account of Goody’s session with the C-MAP Bombay/Mumbai Group.…
