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Natasha Sharma
Natasha is an artist-researcher-organiser in urban practice based in Mumbai, India. She combines artistic expression with social research, and creates place-based, community-led grassroot interventions, primarily in public spaces. Her work exemplifies how creative resistance, collective action and mutual care can drive change and inspire critical thinking about urban spaces and social justice. Her projects demonstrate the role of arts and culture as a crucial scaffolding to urban development. Through artistic-community engagements, she creates 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 medium, her interventions spans from making a film (Gutter Ki Macchli - Fish in the Sewer) on local vocabulary to climate change, creating learning environments in metro stations (The Wait Time Project), site-specific interventions in public parks (Library of Mats), installations embodying softness (1 by one) and recently, envisioning and implementing the Under One Sky (Ek Aasmaan Tale), a creative ecosystem of three spaces for arts, learning and wellbeing with one of the most marginalized neighbourhood in the east of Mumbai, Govandi.
She is the co-founder of Govandi Arts Festival - a community-led arts and culture festival that reclaims and transforms the socio-spatial narrative and infrastructure of Govandi– a ghettoized neighbourhood in Mumbai. At Community Design Agency, she leads the art and design program and integrates her independent practice to collaborate closely with diverse communities, addressing their social and spatial challenges through arts, design, fundraising, and community engagement initiatives.
In recent times, she won UNESCO's Going Together - For Youth Creativity and Wellbeing grant (2025) with the Govandi's youth group, the Arts4Resilience - Knowledge Into Use award (Sweden, 2023), Reclaim Art Award (Germany, 2021) and has been invited to Glastonbury Festival (UK) for their Diversity Artist programme. Her film Gutter Ki Machhli made it as a finalist for Best Indian ShortFilm in All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) 2024.
Email: mail@natashasharma.co
Instagram: fliesinmycurry
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