SOLO
2023 BIG BANG BATIKS, one world foundation, Ahungalla, Sri Lanka
2023 A Memory Quilt, Selyn Foundation, Sri Lanka
2022 ANOTHER LIFE / Ein Anderes Leben, Austrian Cultural Forum, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India
2022 IN CARNATIONS / Rotterdam Photo XL / Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Ventana Cubana / Interlinco Company, Madrid, Spain
2013 Sky, Sea, Land, Life / Odaada Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2013 Lankans / Embassy of Sri Lanka, Vienna, Austria
GROUP
2024 TRANSFORMATIONS at India Art Fair’s 15th edition, New Delhi, India in collaboration with Germany and the Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation (LAMO)
2024 AN ULTRASTRUCTURE OF BRITAIN, PIVOT/GLIDE/ECHO, KALĀ x Lionel Wendt Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2023 FOR A 50 MILLION YEARS, sā Ladakh, Ladakh, India
2022 BLACK BOX II / Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2022 POSSIBILITIES / Rotterdam Photo XL / Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2022 A SIMPLER LIFE / Artbuzz India during India Art Fair 2022, New Delhi, India
2022 Activate Silence / Multimedia show with performance artist Johanna Devi and musician Sebastian Barent, New Delhi, India
2021 Possibilities / Publieke Werken public exhibition at Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2020 Possibilities (endorsed by Rubik’s Cube®) / AlTiba9, Global Edition
2020 Circles / Hindustan Times Image Festival with ArtBuzz, Delhi, India
2019 Group show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2017 Coast and Concrete / Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
AWARDS
2023 Artist in Residence, one world foundation, Sri Lanka/Austria
2021 An Ultrastructure of Britain / Shortlisted for Royal Photographic Society Award and IPE163, UK
2021 Shortlisted for the International Contemporary Art Biennial of South America (BIENALSUR) 2021
2021 Shortlisted for Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA), UAE
2015 Shortlisted for Royal Photographic Society Photography Award, UK
2014 Honourable mention, Life Framer Award, UK
2019 Contemporary Fine Art Foundation Course, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2017 Fine Art Curation (Short Course), Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2008 Master of Arts (Distinction), Vienna University for Applied Sciences for Economics, Austria and Hoge School Zuyd, Maastricht, the Netherlands
PUBLISHED WORK / COLLABORATIONS
2023 ‘Exploring Cosmos and Memory”, Cover Story, The Sunday Observer
2023 ‘ArteMorbida’ Magazine Interview
2022 ‘A Citizen of Potentially Everywhere: Raki Nikahetiya’ CHAHAT Interview
2022 Austrian Cultural Forum Panel Discussion with Prof. Rajeev Lochan and Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi
2022 ‘It’s Nice That’ Magazine Interview
2021 Finding Utopia / Residency with UNSTILL (Laurent Ziegler), Austria
2021 Photographing India and Sri Lanka with Raki Nikahetiya, Unlocking Landscapes, UK
2020 India’s legal obligations towards precarious citizens and stateless persons - Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)
2020 Securing Citizenship, The Centre for Public Interest Law, India
2020 A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM, Quaranzine Magazine
2020 WRONG DATA / empty space, KristofLab
ARTS IN EDUCATION
2023 Interdisciplinary Photography course, one oorld foundation, Sri Lanka
2021 Contemporary photography educator at The Salaam Balaak Trust, India. Ongoing voluntary work.
COLLECTIONS
Raki’s work is in private and corporate collections in Austria, Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.