Shubigi Rao (b. 1975, Mumbai) is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Singapore. She works with histories and lies, literature and violence, ecologies and natural history, libraries and knowledge hierarchies. Her films, art, and books critically, wittily, and poetically scrutinise current and historical flashpoints and crises of displacement of people, languages, cultures, and knowledge bodies.

Rao's immersive and tongue-in-cheek work ranges from creating archaeological archives of garbage, writing How To manuals for building a nation and a culture from scratch, discovering and diagnosing peculiar forms of urban malaise where digital dandruff and pixel dust accumulate like lint and cloud the contemporary brain, building immortal jellyfish, to pseudo-museums regenerating mechanisms of knowledge accumulation, storage, and destruction. Her current long project, Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book is about the history of book destruction, resistance, and the future of knowledge. The first exhibition from the project won the APB Signature Prize 2018 Juror's Choice Award.

Her recent solo exhibitions include “Pulp I–IV” (Bildmuseet, Sweden, 2025–2026); “Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book” (Ngutu Kaka Gallery, New Zealand, 2024); “Shubigi Rao: These Petrified Paths” (Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2023–2024), and “Eating One's Tail” (Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023).

Shubigi Rao was in the 16th Sharjah Biennial, 10th Asia-Pacific Triennial, 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 10th Taipei Biennial, 3rd Pune Biennale, 2nd Singapore Biennale, Auckland Writers Festival, and Singapore Writers Festival. Rao represented Singapore at the National Pavilion in the Venice Biennale (Arte) in 2022. She was also the Artistic Director for the 2022 Kochi-Muziris Biennale.