Delhi-born, Brooklyn-based artist Shradha Kochhar will join Heirloom in conjunction with New York Textile Month as part of our Contemporary @ Heirloom series. 

For her exhibition at Heirloom, 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.

Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is a Brooklyn-based textile artist and educator whose practice explores material memory, cotton histories, invisible labor, and intergenerational healing. She is best known for hand-spun and hand-knitted khadi sculptures made with kala cotton, an indigenous Indian cotton variety, creating sculptural archives of personal and collective South Asian narratives. She is also the founder and creative director of Imli Dana, a textile studio based between Brooklyn and New Delhi.

Kochhar received her MFA in Textiles from Parsons School of Design and has been an artist in residence at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Melbourne Museum and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and featured in The New York Times, British Vogue, Architectural Digest, PAPER, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Contemporary @ Heirloom spotlights fiber and textile artists highlighting their process, unique themes, and the ways in which traditional techniques are celebrated and pushed forward.