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
2023
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
2022
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
Mandali: India and the World, RASA Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
{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
FAIRS
2023
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
2021
FRIEZE ONLINE with Andrew Rafacz
PRESS/WRITINGS
New City Art 50: Chicago's Artist's Artists 2023
At Large Magazine, Issue No.18, 2022
New City Hangover Cures at EXPO 2022 by Alan Pocaro
New City EXPO Chicago 2022 Top Five by Alexandra Drexelius
New City Review of Open Your Mouth+Taste the Spores by Pia Singh
Venti Journal: Plein Air. Vol. 1 Issue 3
Chicago Maroon article by Suzanna Murawski
Occula Interview: In the Studio with Soumya Netrabile
(Nothing but) Flowers review NYT by Roberta Smith
Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections
WAH Bridges Self review
METADADA, Issue No. 1, UC Blue Ash College Press, 2016
LECTURES/PANELS
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