SOUMIYA LAKSHMI KRISHNASWAMY

Soumiya Lakshmi Krishnaswamy invites viewers into her mindscapes to examine how the visceral nature of an artistic mark bridges the gap of time, space, personal history, and culture. She explores how marks have the ability to group, move, and hold tension across divisions in the world.

“My work is inherently about mark-making and communication. Spread over culture and time, we are constantly divided, divisive, despite our humanity and desire to fit in”.

"As a child of immigrants, I lived this way until I recognized that in art, I could read the stories left by ancestors and contemporaries all over the world regardless of the timeline, and I have joined in the conversation".

Krishnaswamy has studied art in Boston, Washington DC, Italy, and Greece. Her solo exhibitions include shows at Apocryphal Gallery, Rome 2021 and Culture House, Washington DC in 2023. She has shown in group exhibitions with Subcontinental Drift and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, and American galleries in New York City, Boston, DC, and Seattle. Her work has been curated, reviewed and awarded by artists and critics such as Lucy Lippard and Jerry Saltz. Soumiya lives and works in Brooklyn NY.