SOUMYA NETRABILE (American, born 1966 in Bangalore, India) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Netrabile received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and her BSEE in engineering from Rutgers University in 1988. Recent solo exhibitions include Rachel Uffner (New York, NY), ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Gana Art (Seoul, South Korea), Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, CA), Part 2 Gallery (Oakland, CA), and The Journal (New York, NY). Group exhibitions include Anthony Meier Fine Art (Mill Valley, CA), Project88 (Mumbai, India), F2T Gallery (Milan, Italy), Make Room (Los Angeles, CA), Fonthill Pottery (London, UK) Anat Ebgi (New York, NY), ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Alexander Bergruen (New York, NY), Museu Inimá de Paula (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), The Journal, Chóra (Patmos Island, Greece), 91 Allen (New York, NY), Rachel Uffner (New York, NY), Indigo + Madder (London, UK), Stellar Highway (Brooklyn, NY), La Loma Projects (Los Angeles, CA), O’Conner Art Gallery (Dominican University, River Forest, IL), Trinta Gallery (Santiago de Compostela, ESP), Fluffy Crimes (Chicago, IL), Practise (Oak Park, IL), Karma Gallery (New York, NY), Part 2 Gallery (Oakland, CA), Standard Projects (Hortonville WI), Sidney Larson Gallery (Columbia, OH), Parenthesis Art Space (Brooklyn, NY), University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Gallery (Cincinnati, OH), Lurie Gallery, Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (Brooklyn, NY), and John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI). Art fairs include: Art Basel Hong Kong, Anat Ebgi (Hong Kong, China), NADA NY, ANDREW RAFACZ (New York, NY), Art Basel Miami Beach, Anat Ebgi (Miami, FL), NADA Miami, ANDREW RAFACZ (Miami, FL), KIAF Seoul, Gana Art (Seoul, South Korea), Dallas Art Fair, Anat Ebgi (Dallas, TX), EXPO CHICAGO, ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Intersection Palm Springs, ANDREW RAFACZ (Palm Springs, CA), and Fog Art Fair San Francisco, Part 2 Gallery (San Francisco, CA). Netrabile has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications including: New City, The Brooklyn Rail, New Art Examiner, Santa Barbara Independent, Artsy, Artillery, Artnet, and The New York Times. Her work is included in both private and public collections.
Gallery Exhibitions
Selected Press
- , ‘Revisiting Landscape Art’, Santa Barbara Independent, February 2024 (PDF)
- , ‘Five Art Shows to See in New York Before July Ends’, Hyperallergic, Summer 2024 (PDF)
- , ‘Soumya Netrabile: Holding Current’, The Brooklyn Rail, Fall 2024 (PDF)
- , ‘Bare Earth’, NewCity Art, May 2024 (PDF)
- , ‘Earth Tones: Soumya Netrabile's "mono no aware" at ANDREW RAFACZ Gallery ’, New Art Examiner, May 2024 (PDF)
- , ‘In an Old Chicago Pipe Organ Factory, Artist Soumya Netrabile Paints Reveries of Nature, Fueled by Figaro and T.S. Eliot’, Artnet News, September 2023 (PDF)
- , ‘GALLERY ROUNDS: Soumya Netrabile’, Artillery, October 2023 (PDF)
- , ‘Art 50 2023: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists’, Newcity Art, September 2023 (PDF)
- , ‘Soumya Netrabile | Residency Interview’, She Curates, Fall 2022
- , ‘What artists are really doing when they take up residencies’, Apollo, August 2022 (PDF)
- , ‘Earthly Pleasures: A Review of Soumya Netrabile’s Searching for Stars’, Sixty Inches From Center, December 2022 (PDF)
- , ‘EXPO 2022 Top 5’, Newcity Art, April 9 2022 (PDF)
- , ‘Hangover Cures at EXPO 2022’, Newcity Art, April 9 2022 (PDF)
- , ‘The Art of Soumya Netrabile: Lush, Apolitical, Ambiguous’, The Chicago Maroon, February 2021 (PDF)
- , ‘In the Studio With Soumya Netrabile’, Ocula, January 18 2021 (PDF)
- , ‘In Between the Greens: A Review of Soumya Netrabile at Andrew Rafacz and Pooja Pittie at McCormick Gallery’, Newcity Art, October 22 2021 (PDF)
- , ‘Interview: Soumya Netrabile, A Contemporary Abstract Painter’, Daily Art Magazine, August 2020 (PDF)
- ‘Mandali: India and the World | Soumya Netrabile’, Ann Arbor District Library, September 2020 (PDF)
- , ‘Soumya Netrabile’, Venti Journal, January 2020 (PDF)
- , ‘Interview with Soumya Netrabile’, She Curates, Fall 2020 (PDF)
- , ‘A Bouquet of Group Art Shows Near Houston Street’, The New York Times, August 13 2020 (PDF)
- , ‘Soumya Netrabile’, yng Space, May 2018
- , ‘Meet Soumya Netrabile’, Voyage Chicago, June 2018
- , ‘Viewpoints: WAH Bridges Self’, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, May 2015 (PDF)
Materials
- Soumya Netrabile Brochure
- Forrest GanderReading

































