Bishwadhan Rai
(b. 1999, Sunsari, Nepal)
bishwadhanrai@gmail.com
@bishwadhanrai

Selected Works (for portfolio please contact artist).

Education
2022-2025 Postgraduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools, London
2018-2022 BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2017-2018 Fine Art Foundation Diploma, Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington

Exhibitions
2025 RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2025 Forest River with Noah El Hachem, Low Hazard, Jebel Ali
2024 Three Years, Weston Studio, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2024 Premiums, Weston Studio, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2023 Tenfold, St James’ Piccadilly, London
2023 New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London
2022 New Contemporaries, Feren Art Gallery and Humber Street Gallery, Hull
2022 Slade Undergraduate Show, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2021 BALTIC Open, BALTIC, Gateshead
2019 Melon-Cauli, Asylum Chapel, London

Writing
2025 (Upcoming) Text for Interjection Calendar, Montez Press

Screenings
2023 Sudden Beams 2: Extraction, Tour, Brighton/Leeds/Nottingham/London, U.K, and Sydney, Australia
2021 Tale from the Silk Road, Online Screening, Nowness Asia

Residencies
September 2025-December 2025 Sainsbury Scholarship in Fine Arts, British School at Rome, Rome

Awards
2025 Patricia Turner Sculpture Award
2025 Almacantar Prize
2024 Salaman-Seelig Art Award
2018-2022 James Lewis Foundation Scholarship

Teaching/Facilitator Experience
2023-2024 Programme Assistant (Social Practice), Chisenhale Gallery, London
2024 Guest Tutor at Newcastle University, BA Fine Art, and Colchester Institute of Art, BFA
Fine Art
2023 Guest Tutor at University of Westminster, BFA Fine Art, and Camberwell School of Art,
BFA Sculpture and Photography.

Press
2025 Summer, RA Schools Final Frontier, Orit Gat, RA Magazine
2024 May, Notes of Elsewhere, Amy Jones, Flash Art

© Bishwadhan Rai