Ishita Shah is trained as an interior designer and an architectural historian. Over the last few years, she has been developing a community-based curatorial practice, which focuses on cultural preservation and creative collaborations with individuals, families, and organizations, promoting a culture of archiving in India and across South Asia. Her work is carried out under the aegis of Curating for Culture, a collective she founded. She is also a consulting archivist and curator at Pattani Archives, Glenmorgan Estate, and Shreyas Foundation.

She also teaches in various programs and cities. Two key projects that she has initiated are Constructing Personal Archives, an incubation program for archival projects across South Asia, and the Women of Vaastukala Archive, a digital repository of oral histories of women practitioners from architecture, design, planning, and allied disciplines in India. Ishita is also a Graham Foundation Grantee (2020), a Khoj CISA Fellow (2021), a former fellowship student and community member at The Alternative Art School (2022), and a TEDx Speaker (2024). Ishita is also a contributor to the Feminist Spatial Practices Group and a thematic Director at PATIO Network.