Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is a textile artist and an educator 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, cotton legacies and intergenerational healing. Focusing on generating a physical archive of personal and collective south asian narratives linked to women’s work, invisible labor and loss, the work is large scale and exists as sculpture beyond whispers over generations. She is also the founder and creative director of Imli Dana, an independent textile studio based between Brooklyn and New Delhi. Previous collaborations include Coachtopia, ASHISH, Marshall Columbia, Tory Burch, Collina Strada and others.
Kochhar received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design, New York. She is the recipient of the 2024 Artist Fellowship and is currently an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts & Design, New York. She was awarded the John L. Tishman Environment and Design Award for Excellence in 2021. She is the finalist of the 2023 Van Lier Fellowship and the 2022 Dorothy Waxman Textile Excellence Prize. Her work has been shown at the Melbourne Museum and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft among others. Her work is featured in PAPER magazine, New York Times, Times of India, British Vogue, Architectural Digest, Vogue, Crafts Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and others.