Radha Pandey is a book artist, papermaker, and letterpress printer. She earned her M.F.A. in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She specializes in Indo-Islamicate Papermaking and teaches book arts classes in India, Europe, and the US.
Her graduate thesis work—a hand-printed book of botanical anatomies titled Anatomia Botanica—won the MICA Book Award at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair (2014) and received an Honorable Mention at the 15th Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. In 2018, her book Deep Time won the Joshua Heller Memorial Award. Pandey’s most recent book, Flora of Mughal India, won the prestigious MCBA Book Prize (2024).
Her artist’s books are held in over 80 public collections internationally, including the Library of Congress and Yale University. Recently, Pandey received the Hovedpris from the Norske Grafikeres Fond, the only receiver of this grant in Norway for 2022.
In addition to adjunct teaching at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, Pandey has lectured and taught workshops at Princeton University (NJ), Harvard Art Museums (MA), Women’s Studio Workshop (NY), Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades (Spain), Cleveland Institute of Art (OH), Leksands Folkhögskola (Sweden), Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall (Norway), and Penland School of Craft (NC). Currently, she is working on a book about the history of papermaking in India.