Natasha Sharma is an artist, designer, and cultural organizer working at the intersection of urban practice and social justice. She champions the role of arts and culture as civic infrastructure, and for over a decade has developed place-rooted, community-led approaches to building public spaces, cultural ecosystems, and bringing youth and children’s participation in city building.
She is Co-founder and Curator of the Govandi Arts Festival, a youth-led arts and cultural movement from the margins of Mumbai’s Govandi. She leads Public Art and Design programmes at the Community Design Agency and develops neighbourhood regeneration initiatives, strategic partnerships, and resource mobilisation transforming underutilised urban spaces into community spaces for arts, play, learning, and wellbeing.
She is a recipient of the Dalai Lama Fellowship (2026–27). And serves as an Advisory Board Member for Mumbai Arts and Health Festival. In the recent past, she’s received UNESCO’s Going Together – For Youth Creativity and Wellbeing grant, the Arts4Resilience – Knowledge Into Use Award, and the Reclaim Art Award. She has been a guest lecturer at the National Institute of Design, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Somaiya Institute of Design, and UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design.