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Maithili Rajput is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, video, and installation. Through labor-intensive processes and intimate gestures, her practice explores endurance, resistance, and the boundaries—both physical and psychological—that shape our lived experiences.
Reinterpreting everyday objects and bodies, Rajput reveals the tensions and dangers embedded in the mundane. Materials like steel, wood, and personal artifacts from her upbringing become vessels for examining how strength and vulnerability coexist. Often concealing or embedding her body within these materials and environments, she implicates the viewer in moments of discomfort—where fragility becomes a source of power. Her work constructs spaces where the familiar and the unsettling collide. Through cryptic, alluring arrangements, she challenges perceptions of belonging, displacement, and intimacy, questioning who is permitted to exist freely in space and who must resist to remain visible.
“In my work, endurance is neither victory nor loss, but simply existence.” This understanding of endurance grounds her practice as an ongoing negotiation with cultural, social, and bodily limits.
Born in India and based in Boston, Rajput holds an MFA in Sculpture from Boston University.
​​​2025 Boston University, Boston, MA, MFA Sculpture
2021 Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH, BFA painting and sculpture
2017 Pinewood American School, Thessaloniki, Greece
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EXHIBITION AND AWARDS
2025 Young Boston Contemporaries, Stone Gallery, Boston, MA
2025 Dissolving Point, Performance at Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Lenox, MA
2025 Muscle Memory, The Cheese Initiative, Boston, MA
2025 Marianna Pineda Award
2025 MFA Sculpture Thesis Show, Stone Gallery, Boston, MA
2025 Common senses, The Cheese Initiative, Boston, MA
2024 Some of a Noneness, Boston, MA, USA
2024 Amalgamy, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2024 CAA, 2024 members Prize Show, Boston, MA, USA
2024 Titles are everything, Ramp show, Boston University, Boston, USA
2023 Creature Comforts, Ramp, Show, Boston University, Boston, USA
2023 Suspended Disbelief, Phoenix Athens Gallery, Athens, Greece
2023 Arte Laguna Prize Venice, 16th edition Finalist, Venice, Italy
2022 Art Vue Foundation Yearly Prize
2022 Enosis, Solo Exhibition, Phoenix Athens Gallery, Athens, Greece
2021 Interactive Art Installations, Sensistan, Museum of Goa, Panjim, Goa, India
2021 Awakened Voices, Issue 13: The Body Speaks
2021 Time Will Tell, Pop-Up Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2021 Art Show International, Honorable mention award; Figurative competition award.
2021 Chasing the Bluebird, Online art Exhibition, 118 Art Gallery.
2021 Unprecedented, Senior Show, Ohio Wesleyan Delaware, Delaware, Ohio, USA
2021 Spring Show, Ohio Wesleyan Delaware, Delaware, Ohio, USA
2017 Make art, not war, Thessaloniki Greece.
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RESIDENCIES AND EXPERIENCE
Current Teacher's Assistant; Foundation sculpture, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2024 - Current Teacher's Assistant; Metals, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2024 Teacher's Assistant; Materials and Methods, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2023 Teacher's Assistant, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
2022 Phoenix Residency, Athens, Greece
2022 Fish Factory Artist Residency, Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland
2021 Circle Residency, Sensistan, Goa, India
2021 IMAGO International Artist Residency, Tsarimir, Bulgaria
2020 COSI Externship, COSI, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2019 Publicity Assistant, Information Services, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, USA
2019 Teaching Assistant, Columbus Initiative, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2018 Teacher's Assistant, Early Childhood Center, Delaware, Ohio, USA
2018 Art Director Intern, Yash Raj Studio, Sui - Dhaga Movie, Mumbai, India
SELECTED PRESS
2024 BU Today, Interview; “How I made this” Link to article
2022 Fish Factory, Interview; featuring article about the approach to sculpture, Link to article
2021 Arte Laguna Prize Venice, 16th Edition Link to the page
2021 Ecstacy, featuring the installation at Museum of Goa, India, Link to article