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Natasha Sharma
Natasha is an artist-researcher, designer and urban practitioner based in Mumbai, India. Her practice weaves together artistic research, visual arts, cultural progamming and placemaking, primarily unfolding in public spaces. Her projects illustrate the role of arts and culture as a crucial scaffolding to urban development. Through artistic-community engagements, she creates installations and spatial interventions of pause and play, activation and restoration, belonging and agency between people and place, that she finds to be rather lost in the current ways of urban-making.
She is deeply passionate about youth and women rights, reclaiming public commons, and building forums for participation and free expressions. Not limited by form or material, her interventions spans from creating learning environments in metro stations (The Wait Time Project), site-specific interventions in public parks (Library of Mats), to making sculpture embodying softness (1 by one) and recently, designing a community library (Kitaab Mahal) with one of the most marginalized neighbourhood in the east of Mumbai, Govandi
Through youth arts mentorship programs, Natasha organized and co-curated the first ever Govandi Arts Festival (2023) and continues to spearhead the initiative with the community leaders. Apart from her independent practice, she leads the public art and design at Community Design Agency, a social design practice, where she works closely with diverse communities on addressing their social and spatial issues through design, fundraising and community engagement. In recent times, she has won the Arts4Resilience - Knowledge Into Use award (Sweden, 2023) and Reclaim Art Award (Germany, 2021).
Email: mail@natashasharma.co
Instagram: fliesinmycurry
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