Pronounced SOHM-YA NAY-TRUH-BYE-LEE
born in Bangalore, India, 1966
lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
BFA , School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BSEE, Rutgers University, College of Engineering
SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
mono no aware, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
2023
Soft Fascination, Gana Art, Nineone, Seoul, Korea
Between Past and Present, Between Appearance and Memory, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Searching For Stars, Part2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
To Meet and Be Met, The Journal, New York, NY
Solo Project EXPO Chicago, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
The Far Away, The Gallery at A+C Architects, Skokie, IL
2021
Open Your Mouth+Taste the Spores, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
I Wake To Sleep, Part2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018
Scratching Below the Surface (w/ Zach Balousek), Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
Ted Gahl, Dustin Hodges, Gabriel Mills, Anna Ting Moller, Soumya Netrabile, Kaifan Wang,
Alexander Bergruen, New York, NY
2023
Nocturne, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
Now, Museu Inima de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Apocalypse Now (curated by The Journal), Old School of Chora, Greece
Threshold (curated by Lindsey Jarvis + Frenel Morris), 91 Allen, New York, NY
2022
Encounter, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
There Goes the Neighborhood, Indigo+Madder, London, UK
Bioelectric Fields, Stellar Highway, Brooklyn, NY
If You Forget My Name, You Will Go Astray, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
Summertime Rolls, LaLoma Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Lay of the Land, O'Connor Art Gallery, Dominican University, IL
Wish Your Were Here, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
Hot Tropics, LaLoma Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Brindar Con Extraños. Trinta Gallery, Santiago de Compostolo, Spain
Baby Baby, Fluffy Crimes, Chicago, IL
Gather, Practise, Oak Park, IL
{Nothing but) Flowers, Karma Gallery, NYC, NY
So Far, La Loma Projects, Pasadena, CA
2019
Lavender Scented Palms, Part 2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018
Big Link, Standard Projects, Hortonville, WI
2017
Paper in Particular, Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia, MO
2016
DADA Lives!, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Art in Motion, Northwestern University Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
Untitled /Affection, Parenthesis Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2015
WAH Bridges Self, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Folktales & Legends, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
PRESS/WRITINGS
Cardoza, Kerry, Arsty Vanguard 2023: Soumya Netrabile
Krieger, Deborah, Artillery Magazine Gallery Rounds/Soumya Netrabile Review
Fueled by Figaro and T.S. Eliot
New City Art 50: Chicago's Artist's Artists 2023
Pocarro, Alan, New City Hangover Cures at EXPO 2022
Drexelius, Alexandra, New City EXPO Chicago 2022 Top Five
Singh, Pia, New City Review: Open Your Mouth+Taste the Spores
Venti Journal: Plein Air. Vol. 1 Issue 3
Murawski, Suzanna, Chicago Maroon, The Art of Soumya Netrabile
Occula Interview: In the Studio with Soumya Netrabile
Smith, Roberta, (Nothing but) Flowers review NYT
Meehan, Audrey, WAH Bridges Self
WRITINGS
At Large Magazine, Issue No.18, 2022
Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections
METADADA, Issue No. 1, UC Blue Ash College Press, 2016
LECTURES/PANELS
2023
NY Crit Club Lecture
2021
Visitng Artist Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Panel host, Conversation with Gina Lee Robbins + Janice Elkins, Ukrainian Inst. of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Panel Talk, On Matthew Wong: Soumya Netrabile and Peter Shear in conversation
with Julian Cox, Art Gallery of Toronto
Visitng Artist Lecturer, Lancaster University Arts, Lancaster, UK
FAIRS
2024
ART BASEL HONG KONG with Anat Ebgi
2023
ART BASEL MIAMI with Anat Ebgi
NADA with Friends of NADA
KIAF SEOUL with Gana Art
DALLAS ART FAIR with Anat Ebgi
EXPO CHICAGO with Andrew Rafacz
2022
NADA MIAMI with Andrew Rafacz
INTERSECT PALM SPRINGS with Andrew Rafacz
FOG ART FAIR SAN FRANCISCO with Part 2 Gallery
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Crocker Art Museum
Orange County Museum of Art
Pond Society/Shanghai
University Club of Chicago
Museu Inima de Paula
Fidelity Collection