Kritika Manchanda is an artist and designer born in India and based in New York. Her work spans across Fine Art and Textile, exploring themes of identity, space and memory. In her artistic approach, she critically examines colonial history as relates to the practice of dress in India. Manchanda creates works that seem to exist in a state of altered dimension and transparency, blurring the boundaries between physical and psychological. She was recognized with the 2018 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Scholarship Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Gucci Design Fellowship Program.