Purvai Rai (b. 1994, New Delhi, India) lives and works between New Delhi, India and New York, NY, USA. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA in 2025, and BFA from Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Bangalore, India in 2017.
Her solo exhibitions include Choreography of the Grid, Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2026); Gestures of Infinity, James Fuentes, New York, NY, USA (2025); and Confluence, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India (2021).
Group shows include – POWER LINE, Perrotin, New York, NY, USA (2025); Threaded, Aicon Contemporary, New York, NY, USA (2025); (UN)layering the Future Past of South Asia: Young Artists’ Voices, curated by Salima Hashmi and Manmeet Walia, SOAS Gallery, London, England (2025); Collected Memory, THK Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2025); Sutr Santiti - Then. Now. Next, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2023); Women Is As Women Does, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS, Mumbai, India (2023); Riyaz, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India (2022); Lines by Lines, Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi, India (2022); Patterns of Intensity, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, India (2021); and Abstract Notations, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India (2021).
Rai completed The Golden Foundation Residency Program in 2026 and was artist-in-residence at the Henry Moore Foundation in 2024. In 2023, she received the TAF Emerging Artist Award.