Shradha Kochhar (b. 1996, Delhi, India) is a textile artist who weaves together the narratives of women’s work and of south asian heritage. Her sculptures are hand knitted of kala cotton, a strain of cotton native to India, which emphasizes her exploration of material memory on both personal and cultural scales. As she creates a physical archive of these narratives through her textiles, she transforms her practice into a process of intergenerational healing.
Kochhar received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design in New York and was awarded the John L. Tishman Environment and Design Award for Excellence in 2021. Her work has been featured in Vogue, the New York Times, and Paper magazine. She lives and works in New York. She is also the founder and creative director of Imli Dana, an independent textile studio based between Brooklyn and New Delhi.
The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.