Sabiha Dohadwala

Based in Mumbai, Sabiha Dohadwala approaches textile as a site of integrating and disintegrating memories, images, and histories. Her works address the human tendency to forget over time and advocate a renewed way of understanding memory. Sabiha captures cultural histories and lived experiences through the act of weaving, where the tactile materiality of textile is ingrained with acts of remembering in the face of erasure.

Weaving, for Sabiha, becomes a way of freezing a moment in time. In constructing the weave, a place is experienced once again –- line by line, felt and unfelt, present and already passing. The places in her work are removed from their original context yet retain the details that have etched themselves into memory: the texture of a wall, the residue of years of use, the trace of a presence that has since moved on. These fragments, fleeting and impermanent, are what she seeks to preserve. 

Sabiha has a Bachelor of Fine Art in fiber and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2018). She had an online solo viewing room, Percolate (2023), on terrain.art and a solo exhibition, (Un)bound, at Interim_ (2022). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at Dhi Contemporary (2025), Bikaner House (2025), India Art Fair (2025), Stranger’s House Gallery (2025 & 2024), Gallery XXL (2024), Space 118 (2024), Art Mumbai (2024), Melbourne Museum (2023), India Art Fair Parallel (2023), India International Centre, New Delhi (2022), National Museum, Delhi (2022) and Sullivan Galleries, Chicago (2018).

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