Swapnaa Tamhane’s art practice is dedicated to the material histories of cotton and jute, while her curatorial interests explore contemporary art histories from India and the wider South-Asian diaspora in North America. She has an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices, Concordia University, Montreal, where she is currently an Artist-in-Residence. Residencies have been held at KHOJ @ 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and she was a participant at MarchMeeting, Sharjah, in 2010. She has been supported by SSHRC, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (2009), and she was an International Museum Fellow with the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in 2013. In 2019, she was a juror for the Sobey Art Award, and is currently on the board of SAVAC. Her research extends to material culture, and with designer Rashmi Varma, she wrote SĀR: The Essence of Indian Design, Phaidon Press (2016). She has exhibited her work at Nature Morte, Delhi; articule, Montreal; Sculpture Park Jaipur; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC; and has been commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Dundee, Scotland.