📁 Fibregraft 

A Digital Garden by Bhavika Sharma
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aka 𝑡i𝑛𝑦 Լe𝑠𝑠o𝑛𝑠 𝑓ro𝑚 
𝑚i𝑔ra𝑛𝑡 ｗee𝑑𝑠





FIBREGRAFT ASKS:
How can we use migrant species as a conduit for learning about landscapes? A material and research practice by Bhavika Sharma, FIBREGRAFT, continues to explore collectively working with invasive species while transforming them into new materials. This research began in the fall of 2023 during Bhavika’s master’s thesis research on the land-based practices of Hanji communities in the Kashmir Valley’s Dal Lake. Observing introduced migrant species at Dal lake, attuning, burrowing, and emerging in companionship with weaver, labourer, and dweller, probed Bhavika to consider new ways of looking at weedy and invasive species.

BHAVIKA SHARMA is a designer and interdisciplinary artist living and working along the Grand River and Toronto/Treaty 13 territory. Learning from local ecological knowledge holders and non-human/weedy species, Bhavika’s practice investigates material and labour(er) relationships within constructed landscapes. Her practice seeks to expand on non-dominant histories: migratory ecologies and gentle interventions become new markers for reading landscapes. Bhavika’s work is produced through mapping, glitching, transmuting, tethering, and taking apart to unravel complex narratives of place. Bhavika’s previous projects have been shown at Factory Media Centre (Hamilton) and Trinity Square Video (Toronto).  

EDUCATION
 SPRING 2024 • Master of Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
FALL 2020 • Honors Bachelor of Arts (Visual Art and Architectural Studies), University of Toronto, ON
RELATED WORKSHOPS, TALKS, AND PRESENTATIONS
SUMMER 2026 • sowsew, in collaboration with Maddie Gnam, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
SUMMER 2026 • Readings + Phragmites Processing, in collaboration with Bad Behaviour, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
WINTER 2025 • Guest Critic, JAV300: Land, Relations, Truth and Reconciliation Review Panel, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
SUMMER 2025 • Artist Talk: Weedy Technologies, Guest Speaker for Tunnel Mound Comeback, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
SUMMER 2025 • Phragmites Processing Sessions, in collaboration with Masumi Rodriguez and Elena Kirby, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
SPRING 2025 • Processing/Paper-making with Migrant Species, in collaboration with SEED Collective, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
WINTER 2024 • Guest Critic, JAV300: Land, Relations, Truth and Reconciliation Review Panel, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
FALL 2024 • Guest Speaker, LAN3051: Landscape Research Methods, Daniels Faculty of Landscape, Architecture, and Design, Toronto, ON
FALL 2024 • Playing with Migrant Species, in collaboration with the Friends of Allan Gardens, Allan Gardens Conservatory, Toronto, ON
FALL 2024 • Playing with Migrant Species, in collaboration with RainscapeTO, Eglington Park Heritage Community Garden, Toronto, ON
SUMMER 2024• Processing and Paper-making with Migrant Species, in collaboration with Nikibii Dawadinna Giigwag, UTSC Farm, Scarborough, ON

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
 SPRING 2026 • Little and Often, in collaboration with Meech Boakye. Group Exhibition, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum, Toronto, ON
FALL 2025 • where do we still plant flowers?, Group Exhibition, Kanata Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON
SUMMER 2025 • Tunnel Mound Comeback, Group Exhibition, The Plumb, Toronto, ON

RELATED WRITINGS AND PUBLICATIONS
SUMMER 2026 • Walking Distance, by Meech Boakye, Active Cultures, Los Angeles, CA (Contributor)
FALL 2025 • Sprawl: Towards a Weedy, Rhizomatic Mapping of Landscapes. School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB (Essay)
FALL 2025 • Anatomy of a Fluid Landscape, Scaffold Journal Vol 2: Drafting Liminalities, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON  (Journal Article)
FALL 2025 • Weedy: An Extended Studio Visit. in conversation with Shalaka Jadhav, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON (Interview)
SUMMER 2025 • Tunnel Mound Comeback. Edited by Chloe Grodon-Chow, The Plumb, Toronto, ON (Contributor)

RESIDENCIES AND RESEARCH  
SUMMER 2026 • Artist Writings Workshops, Bad Behaviour Collective + Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
SPRING 2026 • Artist-in-Residence, Washi Plus + Kashiki Seishi, Kochi, Japan
SUMMER 2022 • Summer Residency, The Plumb, Toronto, ON
SPRING 2022 • Peter Prangnell Research Grant, Berlin, Germany
FALL 2020-21 • Artist-in-Residence, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
FABRICATION  TEAM
Maddie Gnam
CONTACT @fibre_graft
vikabsharma@gmail.com








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