Payal Rajput India, b. 1997

Payal Rajput (b.1997, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India) completed her BVA, Painting and MVA, Mural, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, 2021. Her works have been exhibited in group shows in India at Gallery Dotwalk, New Delhi, Ark Foundation for the Arts, Vadodara, 2023, Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad, 2021 and Fine Arts Gallery, Vadodara, 2017. She has been one of the winners of Space118 Fine Arts Grant, 2022-23 and participated in Community Action Program - Project Eco Walk by Arunkumar HG, SARA Center, Karnataka, 2017. She has participated in Raku Workshop under Shampa Shah, 2017 and Digital Media workshop under Aziz Sharafi, 2016. She teaches at Head Start Educational Academy. 

Her work deals with the idea of home and memories by re-introducing the spaces and objects from dilapidated and abandoned or vacated architecture as a source to trigger an experience. By drawing upon these spaces, the temporal state of the house is attained which is now nearly left to ruin. The images in her work are mostly taken from her ancestral home in Shahbazpur, Uttar Pradesh. Focusing on the architecture of home and its psychological implications, aiming to create a metaphysical experience, the work takes shape consisting of exploration in various mediums which are two-dimensional, sculptural, on-site development and installation. While constantly introspecting, the layers and mark-making in her works becomes a way to reflect and converse with the subconscious state. 

Payal Rajput lives and works in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.