In person / Exhibition / Knitting
For her exhibition, Elongating Time, Shradha Kochhar’s contemporary textiles will be presented in dialogue with antique textiles from the gallery’s collection, drawing connections across material, handwork and generations of textile-making. She will be present for a Q&A at the opening reception.
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Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is an artist with a focus in fibre, 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, tactile histories and intergenerational dialogue. 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 holds an MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design, New York, and has been an artist fellow at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She is a finalist for both the Dorothy Waxman Textile Excellence Prize and the Van Lier Fellowship and was honored with the John L. Tishman Environment and Design Award for Excellence in 2021.
Her work has been shown at the New York Historical, Melbourne Museum, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Mana Contemporary, Crafts Museum and New York Public Library. Her work has been featured in New York Times, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Crafts Magazine, Selvedge Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and others.