Natasha Sharma
Natasha Sharma is an artist, researcher, and curator in social and 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. Not limited by form or medium, her interventions include making a film (Gutter Ki Machli - Fish in the Sewer) on local climate change vocabulary, 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, creating Under One Sky (Ek Aasmaan Tale), a creative ecosystem of three spaces for arts, learning, and wellbeing in one of the most marginalized neighbourhood in the west of Mumbai, Govandi.
She is the Co-founder and Curator of Govandi Arts Festival, a community-led arts and culture festival that reclaims and transforms the socio-spatial narrative and infrastructure of Govandi, and leads the Public Art and Design programmes at Community Design Agency. She recently received UNESCO's Going Together - For Youth Creativity and Wellbeing grant (2025), the Arts4Resilience - Knowledge Into Use award (2023), Reclaim Art Award (2021), and has been invited to Glastonbury Festival (UK) for their Diversity Artist programme(2024). Her film Gutter Ki Machhli made it as a finalist for Best Indian Short Film in All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) 2024.
She is the Co-founder and Curator of Govandi Arts Festival, a community-led arts and culture festival that reclaims and transforms the socio-spatial narrative and infrastructure of Govandi, and leads the Public Art and Design programmes at Community Design Agency. She recently received UNESCO's Going Together - For Youth Creativity and Wellbeing grant (2025), the Arts4Resilience - Knowledge Into Use award (2023), Reclaim Art Award (2021), and has been invited to Glastonbury Festival (UK) for their Diversity Artist programme(2024). Her film Gutter Ki Machhli made it as a finalist for Best Indian Short Film in All Living Things Environmental Film Festival (ALT EFF) 2024.