India-born, New York-based textile artist Anubha Sood earned her BFA in Fine Art and Textile Design from Srishti School in Bangalore before going on to receive her MFA from Parsons inaugural textile program in New York in 2020. While at Parsons, Sood developed a passion for fibers and living materials, and in 2020, she won the Sustainability Award from the first ever Global Design Graduate Show, a collaboration between ARTSTHREAD and i-D, sponsored by Gucci.
In India, Sood saw first-hand the environmental damage caused by textile production and fabric dying, which piqued her interest in systems of production and their entanglement with the natural world. Sood’s experimental practice is centered around a sustainable ecology of making. She sees the act of making as a personal healing process and a catalyst to physically engage with her environment.