ashoda Latkar (b. Mumbai, India) is a multimedia visual artist and educator based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. She moved to the United States in 2019 and holds an MFA from New Mexico State University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Art Department.
Her practice explores the intersections of migration, identity, and cultural memory through self-portraiture, photography, performative video, and mixed-media installation. Working with spices, sarees, and other cultural artifacts, she reconstructs fragments of identity and investigates how objects carry meaning across time and geography.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the permanent collection of the University Art Museum at New Mexico State University. She is the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from the Doña Ana Arts Council, and has been recognized as Exceptional Visual Artist Scholar at the Sanitary Tortilla Factory and La Mecha Contemporary Fellow in El Paso, Texas.
