Black and white portrait of a young woman with long dark hair, smiling.

Tasmiah Chowdhury is a multidisciplinary textile artist, sculptor, and poet based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A defining health crisis prompted a profound shift in her life and career, leading her away from conventional professional systems and toward a creative practice that became central to her healing. She regards art not only as a means of expression, but as her medicine—a way of processing experience, restoring connection, and making meaning through creation.

Her practice is deeply rooted in her Bangladeshi heritage and the textile traditions she witnessed her mother create. Working with fibers and materials connected to those early memories, Chowdhury carries these gestures forward, transforming cultural inheritance and personal experience into tactile, two- and three-dimensional works.

Over time, her practice has evolved into an inquiry into the interconnectedness of human experience. Through the language of material, form, and poetry, she explores how we encounter ourselves through duality, gather stories through living, and pass them forward across generations. Her work considers each life as both singular and connected. A thread in a larger fabric of being, woven from experiences that continue to shape us and remain for others to discover.