Rajyashri Goody was born in 1990 in Pune, India. She lives and works between the Netherlands and India. 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 two year residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.
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.
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); Recontres de Bamako(2023); Galleryske, New Delhi(2022); Breda Photo (2022); Savvy Contemporary, Berlin(2022); and Goethe Institut, Mumbai (2021).