Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist based on Gadigal land, working across sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores longing and loss tied to cultural identity, drawing on intergenerational family stories to imagine alternate futures. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, Rani Rudhar examines cultural conformity, commodification, and essentialization within a settler colonial context. Through an auto-ethnographic lens, she reclaims fragmented oral histories to restore familial rituals and resist cultural erasure.
Rani Rudhar graduated from a Bachelor of Arts Honors, First Class, UNSW Art & Design, and has exhibition across Australia and internationally including The 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sydney, Australia (2026); Makers Space, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia (2025); Waiting Room, Gallery 27, Kochi, India (2025); Mud to Masterpiece, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, Australia (2025); Kerameikos, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney (2024) and Primavera: Young Australian Artists at The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2024).
Her work is held in major public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank, and Blacktown Arts. She has also completed significant commissions for Casula Powerhouse and the Powerhouse Museum. Recent accolades include the 2023 Gosford Emerging Art Prize and the 2025 acquisitive Blacktown City Art Prize.