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In September, I’ll begin incubating my clothing line @rugaproject at @newinc, @newmuseum’s cultural incubator, in the Launchpad track.

I’m ready to bring RUGA into its next chapter and excited to work with the NEW INC team, mentors, my cohort, and the larger NEW INC community! ⚡️ taken in New Museum by @rujutarao

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Happy to share that @metmuseum has acquired my books Mother and Seer, now housed at the @metlibrary

Thank you, @ashjared, for initiating this acquisition!

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Photo 2 by @maxyawney100
Photos 3 and 4 by @mayabaran taken in The Met by @rujutarao

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2 years ago

Glad to have my books disperse like dandelion seeds. Three of them are now in @harvard’s Fine Arts Library.

@harvardfineartslibrary

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Image 2: @mikeoshea
Image 3: @maxyawney100,
Worn by @art_by_dhrumil taken in Harvard University by @rujutarao

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Join us on Thursday, October 29 as multidisciplinary artist Rujuta Rao will test a new form, the “garment-essay,” a wearable publication and performance that brings together her research into fermentation across natural dyeing, brewing and distillation, and the processing of plant materials into textiles and paper. The essay considers wild fermentation, an uncontrolled process in which microorganisms present in a place transform materials in ways that cannot be standardized or fully controlled.

During the 30–40-minute performance, Rao’s essay will be read from an indigo-dyed garment worn by performer Rebecca Mzengi Corey @rebeccamzengicorey, while feni is served to the audience. Following the reading, garments from Rao’s clothing line, RUGA @rugaproject, will be available for browsing.

Tap the link in our bio to learn more and RSVP. 🔗 taken in Storefront for Art and Architecture by @rujutarao

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We are thrilled to announce Dieu Donné's 2026 Workspace Residency artists:

✨ Jazmine Hayes @jazminelovine
✨ Rujuta Rao (Dual Workspace Residency Artist) @rujutarao
✨ Erin Turner @eturnerinstal

Since 1990, Dieu Donné's Workspace Residency has provided emerging, New York metropolitan area-based artists the opportunity to explore paper pulp as an artistic medium. Each Workspace Residency artist will have the opportunity to experiment in Dieu Donné's handmade papermaking studios alongside one of our expert collaborators.

We are also pleased to once again offer the Dual Workspace Residency which provides one resident, Rujuta Rao, with a studio-based residency at Artists Alliance Inc. @aai_nyc, parallel to the collaborative papermaking residency at Dieu Donné.

Join us in congratulating our 2026 Workspace Residency Artists! 🎉

This cycle's artists were selected by the following panel:

Alejandra Arias Sevilla @ajajiux, Dieu Donné Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellow, 2024
Sunny Leerasanthanah @sunnyleeras, Artists Alliance Inc. Resident, 2024-2025
Galina Mardilovich, Curator, Smart Museum of Art
Miranda Kyle, Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas, Michael C. Carlos Museum
Ye Zhu @ye.zhu_, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency Artist, 2024

Error correction: Jazmine Hayes artwork dated 2022, not 2025.

#workspaceresidency #dieudonnepaper #handpapermaking #papermaking by @rujutarao

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Beginning the @initialresearch fellowship this month. Looking forward to working alongside the other fellows and with the Initial Research team. Thank you @huidixiang, @heichiyuanr and @christinachang326 for the invitation!

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The Initial Research Fellowship is a year-long program that offers time, space, and structural support for artists and practitioners to explore emerging questions, with research understood as a practice of attention, relation, and care.

Image: Minibar, Photo by Keith Fernandes taken in Initial Research by @rujutarao

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2 months ago

Come make dumplings with Rujuta Rao as she recontextualizes the frameworks we use to approach borders and migration.

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"LuLu Meng: Pinch of Us with Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya and Rujuta Rao"

Dumpling Making Workshop co-presented by Artists Alliance Inc.
Curated by Sofia Thiệu D’Amico and Anna Khimasia

October 22, 7-9PM
Tickets $10

Essex Kitchen, 88 Essex St (mezzanine), New York, NY 10002

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A culinary exploration of multiculturalism, artists share their dumpling making traditions and participants come together to cook, converse, and eat side by side.

***GLUTEN FREE***

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Come make Thai, Indonesian, Chinese, and Indian influenced dumplings!

#newyork #cooking #glutenfree #theimmigrantartistbiennial #TIAB2026IdentityCard taken in Essex Market by @rujutarao

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Gave a guest lecture at @parsonsschoolofdesign in the Department of Printmaking and Book Arts, in the printshop and bindery, a perfect setting! Such a pleasure to speak at Parsons twice last week. Thank you @scarlettxmeng for inviting me to this one, and thank you to the students for so generously sharing their own work with me. taken in Parsons School of Design by @rujutarao

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“Mother” is now in the Special Collections at Shields Library, UC Davis, my first West Coast collection. I’m grateful to the librarians who initiated this acquisition.

“Mother” is a 28-page, riso-printed accordion fold wearable book, made in an edition of 30. The accordion folds allow the book to expand and accommodate a range of sizes. The image, fragmented across the book in a lenticular manner, cannot be grasped all at once but can be gradually perceived as the book is turned around the wrist. taken in UC Davis by @rujutarao

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Had such a lovely time giving an artist talk at Parsons Art & Design History & Theory (@parsonsadht) today! Thank you @audra.wolo for inviting me, and thank you to the students for being so engaged and curious.

Always happy to return to @parsonsschoolofdesign, where I completed my MFA. ✨ taken in Parsons School of Design by @rujutarao

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I’ll present a performative reading of my essay-garment at @initialresearch on Saturday, September 26th, performed by @qianfan, whom I am grateful to work with. Thank you to @amikoli for the invitation as part of his new initiative @artist.visits, and to the @initialresearch team for supporting the program. I’m thrilled to be in the company of @xu6ing and @jylllllll___.

The essay Steeping in The Hollow (2026) was written while immersed in @iatp_nyc. Paired with the modular garment Sectional Vest (@rugaproject, 2026), it forms a hybrid essay-garment that annotates the body.

🗓️ Saturday, September 26, 6:00—8:00 PM
41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York, NY
RSVP in bio

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Repost from @initialresearch ~
Join us for an evening of performance organized by our current fellow Amiko Li (@amikoli), in collaboration with Tianran Qian (@_tianran_), featuring artists Jiaoyang Li (@jylllllll___), Sixing Xu (@xu6ing), and Rujuta Rao (@rujutarao).

In New York, time and space are often closely tied to currency and productivity. This performance program brings together three artists whose practices challenge conventional forms of artmaking through subtitles and translation, wearable poetry, and performative investigation.

Moving beyond the production of material objects, their works consider bodies, language, and lived experiences as sites of exploration, imagining new ways of thinking about time, labor, and value.

During the evening, Amiko will introduce 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘀 (@artist.visits), a new platform connecting artists, patrons, and curious art viewers through studio visits and encounters in New York and Shanghai.

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Image 2: Sectional Vest is modeled by @jacqueline_qiu ❤️ taken in Initial Research by @rujutarao

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My book “Mother” is part of @harvardfineartslibrary’s annual Open House on Thursday, September 17, 1–3pm.

Mother
by Rujuta Rao.
[Jersey City, New Jersey] : Rujuta Rao, 2024.
28 pages : illustrations ; 60 mm
English
HOLLIS number: 99161435744003941 taken in Harvard University by @rujutarao

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