Pronounced SOHM-YA NAY-TRUH-BYE-LEE
born in Bangalore, India
lives and works in Chicago
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EDUCATION
BFA , School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BSEE, Rutgers University, College of Engineering
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SOLO/TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
forthcoming (Union Pacific, London)
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2024
Holding Current (forthcoming), Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
mono no aware, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
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2023
Soft Fascination, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, Korea
Between Past and Present, Between Appearance and Memory, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
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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
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2021
Open Your Mouth+Taste the Spores, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL
I Wake To Sleep, Part2 Gallery, Oakland, CA
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2018
Scratching Below the Surface (w/ Zach Balousek), Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
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SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
-scape, curated by Ritika Biswas, Project88, Mumbai, India
Conversations with Salvo, ft2 Gallery, Milan, Italy
2024
Syncretic Voices, curated by Rajan Biljani, Michael Jefferson, Truls Blasmo,
Font Hill Pottery, London, UK
Global Muses, curated by Laura Day Webb for Vortic Art, London, UK
I Go To Seek a Great Perhaps, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
Christmas in July, Christmas in July, curated by Wells Chandler for Andrew Rafacz,
NADA East Broadway, New York, NY
First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
TIMELINE, Alexander Bergruen, New York, NY
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PRESS/WRITINGS
New City, Art 50 2025, Chicago's Artist's Artists, Sep 2025
New Critierium Editors, The Critic's Notebook, Oct 2025
Shae, Andrew L., Holding Current, October 2025
Bozif, Curtis Anthony, New Art Examiner, Earth Tones, May 2024
Young, Charles Venkatesh, New City, Bare Life, May 2024
Woodward, Josef, Santa Barbara Independent, Feb 2024
Cardoza, Kerry, Arsty Vanguard 2023: Soumya Netrabile, Nov 2023
Krieger, Deborah, Artillery Magazine Gallery Rounds/Soumya Netrabile, Oct 2023
Fueled by Figaro and T.S. Eliot, Sep 2023
New City Art 50: Chicago's Artist's Artists 2023, Sep 2023
Pocarro, Alan, New City Hangover Cures at EXPO 2022 , Apr 2022
Drexelius, Alexandra, New City EXPO Chicago 2022 Top Five , Apr 2022
Singh, Pia, New City Review: Open Your Mouth+Taste the Spores , Oct 2022
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 , Aug 2020
Esthetic Lens Interview, Aug 2020
Voyage Chicago Interview, 2018
Mothes, Kate, Youngspace Interview , 2018
Meehan, Audrey, WAH Bridges Self , 2015
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WRITINGS
Ashwini Bhat by Soumya Netrabile, BOMB Magazine, Feb 2024
At Large Magazine, Print Issue No.18, 2022
Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections
METADADA, Issue No. 1, UC Blue Ash College Press, 2016
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LECTURES/PANELS
2025
Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2024
Visiting Artist Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023
Guest Speaker, NY Crit Club, online
2022
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Indiana University, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design, Columbus, IN
2021
Visiting Artist Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Panel Moderator, Conversation with Gina Lee Robbins and Janice Elkins, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Panel Talk, On Matthew Wong: Soumya Netrabile and Peter Shear in conversation with Julian Cox, Art Gallery of Toronto
2021 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Lancaster University Arts, Lancaster, UK
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FAIRS
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2025
2025
ART BASEL HONG KONG, Anat Ebgi
ARMORY SHOW, NY, Anat Ebgi​
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2024
ART BASEL MIAMI, Anat Ebgi
ART BASEL HONG KONG, Anat Ebgi
NADA NY, Andrew Rafacz
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2023
ART BASEL MIAMI, Anat Ebgi
NADA, Friends of NADA
KIAF SEOUL,Gana Art
DALLAS ART FAIR,Anat Ebgi
EXPO CHICAGO, Andrew Rafacz
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2022
NADA MIAMI, Andrew Rafacz
INTERSECT PALM SPRINGS, Andrew Rafacz
FOG ART FAIR SAN FRANCISCO, Part 2 Gallery
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Aishti Foundation, Jan El Dib, Lebanon
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museu Inima de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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