Shubigi Rao was born on 1975 and is an Indian-born Singaporean contemporary artist and writer known for her long-term, multidisciplinary projects and installation works that often use books, etchings, drawings, video, and archives.
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Shubigi Rao's interests include archaeology, libraries, neuroscience, histories and lies, literature and violence, and natural history.
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In 2018, Shubigi Rao received the Juror's Choice Award at the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize for her work, Written in the Margins, the first instalment of her ongoing 10-year project on the destruction of books and libraries, titled Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book.
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Shubigi Rao curated the fifth edition of South Asia's biggest visual arts event, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which was initially planned to take place from December 2020 to April 2021, before being postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19.
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Alongside Kochi-Muziris Biennale founder and artist Bose Krishnamachari, Shubigi Rao was featured on the 2019 and 2020 editions of the ArtReview Power 100 list, which charts the most influential individuals working in contemporary art.
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In 2022, Shubigi Rao represented Singapore at the 59th Venice Biennale with the project Pulp III: A Short Biography of The Banished Book, with Ute Meta Bauer as curator for the artistic team.
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Shubigi Rao was born in 1975 in Mumbai, and grew up in the Himalaya.
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In 1996, Shubigi Rao obtained her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Delhi.
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Shubigi Rao previously lectured part-time in Art Theory and was a MFA Dissertation supervisor for the Faculty of Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts.
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From 2003 to 2013, Rao assumed the role of a fictitious male scientist named S Raoul and presented his work at scientific conferences and group art exhibitions.
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In 2014, Shubigi Rao initiated her currently ongoing 10-year project on the destruction of books and libraries, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book.
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In 2016, as an artist-in-residence at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Shubigi Rao self-published the first book from her project, titled Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book.
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From June 2016 to May 2017, as an international artist-in-residence at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Shubigi Rao would develop the first instalment of the Pulp project, Written in the Margins.
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In February 2019, Shubigi Rao exhibited alongside American actress and artist Lucy Liu in a joint exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore, Unhomed Belongings.
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Alongside Kochi-Muziris Biennale founder and artist Bose Krishnamachari, Shubigi Rao was featured on the 2019 edition of the ArtReview Power 100 list, which charts the most influential individuals working in contemporary art.
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Shubigi Rao would be featured alongside Krishnamachari on the ArtReview Power 100 list in 2020.
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In 2024, Shubigi Rao won the Singapore Literature Prize in Creative Nonfiction for her third volume from the Pulp project, 'Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book'.
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Shubigi Rao had previously won for her second volume from the project, Pulp II: A Visual Bibliography of the Banished Book.
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Shubigi Rao represented Singapore with 'Pulp III' at the Singapore Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, with Ute Meta Bauer serving as curator for the artistic team.
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Shubigi Rao's work was listed as one of the best national pavilions by Artsy, The Arts Newspaper, and Weltkunst among others, and garnered significant media and public attention.
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In 2024 Shubigi Rao won the Singapore Literature Prize in Creative Nonfiction for her book, Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory of the Banished Book.
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In 2020, Shubigi Rao won the Singapore Literature Prize for her book Pulp II: A Visual Bibliography of the Banished Book.
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Shubigi Rao won the Juror's Choice Award at the APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018 for the first instalment of the Pulp project, Written in the Margins.
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Shubigi Rao has been awarded the Creation Grant, and the Presentation Grant, from the National Arts Council Singapore, and was awarded the Winston Oh Travel Award in 2005.