Ishita Sharma is the Indian-American painter, photographer, writer and designer behind StudioISH– a design studio that bridges fine art with design-thinking and storytelling to solve real life problems, while creating connection, joy and aliveness through the power of intentional design.
Born in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas, she now resides at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin, CA where she also runs her private healing and coaching practice, Come to Center. A bridge between cultures and disciplines, all her expressions illuminate that exquisite place in us where the Universal and particular meet as joy, and aliveness!
Her work deepens the innately Human capacity to pause, see and feel what is, and in that pausing, to transform the mundane into the miraculous- whether beholding the contours of a belly button, a humble radish or the depths of our own human hearts.
Ishita is a published essayist, poet, an award-winning architect, photographer, designer and exhibiting painter. Her projects range from design direction for AI companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, graphic design for independent artists, branding for large businesses, renovations and interior design for single family homes, web design for small businesses to architectural design for the Dallas Fort-worth Airport, the Sixth Floor Museum, the Lowell Trial Court amongst others. She has been a columnist for the Dallas Morning News, travelled to Japan as an AIA fellow to study urban architectural hybridization and across Europe to study sinking cities negotiating with climate change as a fellow of the LAIA.
She lives to embody and share a new possibility for us all- context that nurtures our innate wholeness and celebrates the fullness of this precious paradoxical Human Life.
