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Shubigi Rao, Aftermath of the Fire at the Natural History Collection, Jagger Library, Cape Town, South Africa, 2022. Image courtesy Shubigi Rao and Rossi & Rossi.

Shubigi Rao @ Harnett Museum at the University of Richmond, Virginia

September 24, 2026

Shubigi Rao: All Our Elephants Are in Rooms is Shubigi Rao's first exhibition in the United States, which presents the newest chapter in the ongoing project Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book. Amplifying individual acts of resistance, solidarity, and witnessing, Rao’s work deconstructs the destruction of knowledge as a calculated element of war, oppression, genocide, and even ecocide to reveal histories of power and stubborn survival.

At the Harnett Museum of Art, Rao will shift her focus beyond human agency to explore how we make sense of the natural world by integrating wondrous objects—rocks, minerals, ceramics, and other specimens—from the Lora Robins Gallery natural history collection.

This show runs through 24 April, 2027.

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