SOUMYA NETRABILE
Championed by CURA Art
Soumya Netrabile was born in Bangalore, India and moved to the U.S. with her parents when she was 7 years old.
She first studied engineering at Rutgers University. She returned to school to study painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently lives and works in Chicago.
Soumya engages in personal and spontaneous gesture and colour. She explores connections between the body, terrain and elements in nature.
Her paintings set out to understand her attachment to, and reciprocal relationship with, the natural world.
Daily walks in the forest near her home and her extensive travels are the artist’s sources for study, inspiration and imagination.
The canvases are a shared space of belonging and engagement. It is where human and animal figures are often enveloped in their environment, yet emboldened by the marks of her paint.
Image: Soumya Netrabile, Untitled (Toiano), 2022