Aneri Shah
Designer and Artist
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Aneri Shah is an artist and designer whose practice lives at the threshold of craft, technology, and cultural storytelling. Working across textiles, fashion, and material research, she brings together traditional techniques with contemporary digital tools to create work that is both visually arresting and conceptually anchored.
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Rooted in her Indian heritage and shaped by her training at Parsons School of Design (MFA Textiles) and the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Aneri approaches textiles as living archives—sites where memory, identity, and politics converge. She spins, crochets, knits, weaves, dyes, and deconstructs heirloom saris, brocades, and reclaimed materials, transforming them into sculptural forms, experimental fabrics, and prints that challenge patriarchal narratives and reimagine representations of femininity. Her work often interrogates media portrayals of women, colonial legacies, and the complex negotiations of agency within cultural frameworks.
Equally at home in the studio and within industry, Aneri blends craft-heavy material exploration with a sharp design sensibility. She is fluent in Adobe Creative Suite, CLO 3D, Raspberry AI, Procreate, and textile CAD systems, allowing her to move seamlessly from hand-developed swatches to production-ready designs. Her professional collaborations span brands and studios such as Boston Proper, Retrofête, Studio Maroon, Jonathan Cohen, ThreeAsFour, Fanny Aliié Studio, William Storm Studio, Calyx Studio, and Kingsland Printing—where she contributed to print, knitwear, textile innovation, product development, and cross-functional design processes across international markets.
Aneri’s work has been exhibited at NeoCon with ECONYL® by Aquafil, NYCxDesign, India Art Fair, the Sheila Johnson Design Center, and showcased at the Unraveling Fashion Narratives Symposium. She has been recognized with awards, including the Surface Design Association’s Creative Promise Award and the Outstanding Student Award, as well as multiple honors from Parsons and the Best Design Collection Award from NIFT. Her interviews and features appear in Surface Design Journal, Hand Weavers Guild of America, Canvas Rebel, Fashion Studies Network, ArtsInSquare, and the Arts to Hearts Project’s Art and Woman publication.
Based in the United States, Indian born Aneri has authored research papers and showcased thought-provoking sculptural installations, exploring the intricate layers of women’s autonomy within patriarchal frameworks. Guided by conscious material choices and a commitment to social and environmental dialogue, Aneri creates textiles and designs that challenge, question, and reimagine. She continues to explore the transformative potential of hybrid-making—where craft and technology, the personal and the political, converge into a singular visual language.
