Shradha Kochhar-INDIA

Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is a textile artist and knitwear designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Best known for her home spun and hand knitted ‘khadi’ sculptures using ‘kala cotton’ - an inherently organic cotton strain indigenous to India, her work is at an intersection of material memory, sustainability and intergenerational healing. Focusing on generating a physical archive of personal and collective south asian narratives linked to women’s work, invisible labor and grief, the work is large scale and exists as sculpture beyond whispers over generations.

Kochhar received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design, New York. She is the finalist of the Van Lier Fellowship and Dorothy Waxman Textile Excellence Prize. She was awarded the John L. Tishman Environment and Design Award for Excellence. Her work has been shown at Melbourne Museum, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Mana Contemporary and Textile Culture Net among others. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Crafts Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and others.

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