Deepa Subramanian
Deepa Subramanian | |
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| File:Deepa Subramanian in 2025 at Galerie De'Arts, Santa Monica, CA.png Deepa Subramanian at Galerie De'Arts, Santa Monica, CA. 2025. | |
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) |
| Alma mater | University of Madras |
| Occupations | Art curator and gallerist |
Deepa Subramanian (b. 1968) is an Indian-American curator, art gallerist and an entrepreneur [1] based in Los Angeles, California, United States.[1]
She grew up in Chennai, India, and graduated from Madras University in 1988. In 2001, she co-founded a supply chain management business in pharmaceutical chemicals.[2]
In March 2009, she founded Galerie De'Arts, a contemporary art gallery in Bangalore, India in the precinct, Barton Centre.[3] Galerie De'Arts represented established and emerging artists from South India.[4][5][6] She has curated several art exhibitions in Bangalore, India and has worked with pioneering artists like S.G.Vasudev , Yusuf Arakkal and Balan Nambiar [2]. The gallery closed post-COVID-19 in 2021.[7][8][9]
In 2017, she moved to Los Angeles, California. Since 2018, she has been curating art exhibitions in the United States including "Intersections" which she co-curated for the PST Art, an initiative by the J. Paul Getty Museum, and "1:1" a digital art show for the DNA Digital Art Festival, Santa Monica. In 2025. She founded Galerie De’Arts in Santa Monica, CA.[10]
She was first appointed Arts Commissioner of Santa Monica, California for term June 25, 2019 to June 30, 2023. She was appointed a second time for the term July 25, 2023 to June 30, 2027. She also serves as Chair, Public Arts Committee within the Santa Monica Arts Commission, which is an advisory body to the City Council. Deepa was one of the jurors along with Christine Messineo, Director, Americas, Frieze Art Fair and Anne Ellegood Executive Director of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art for the selection of Edgar Ramirez's art work, Baji (2023) for the Santa Monica Art Bank Collection at the Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles, 2023.[11]
Notable curatorial works
[edit | edit source]- Summer in Bloom: A floral interpretation by Astrid Preston, Galerie De'Arts, June 2025[12]
- "Intersections" for the PST Art, Art and Science Collide, an initiative by the J.Paul Getty Museum, [Co-curated by Om Bleicher, Sung-Hee-Son and Deepa Subramanian], 2025[13]
- "Intersect Aspen, bG Gallery [booth], Aspen, Colorado, 2025
- Scottsdale Arts Festival, bG Gallery [booth], Scottsdale, Arizona, 2025
- Art Miami, Art Basel, bG Gallery [booth], Miami Beach, Florida, 2025
- Outsider Art Fair, bG Gallery [booth], New York, NY, 2025
- 1:1, DNA Digital Art Festival, Santa Monica, CA, 2024[14]
- LA Marler Solo, L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2023
- Midcentury Modern - Modernism Art & Design Show, Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA, 2022
- Plugged-Unplugged, LA Marler, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, CA, 2022[15]
- Meditative musings: Berta Negari, Santa Monica, CA, 2022
- Palm Springs Modernism Art and Design Show [booth], Palm Springs, CA, 2022
- Enhanted India, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2021[16]
- Intersections, Mike Saijo, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2020
- "Poetry in colours" , Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2014 [3]
- "Black and White" S.G.Vasudev and Jogen Choudhary, Ritz Carlton, Bangalore, 2015 [Co-curated by Deepa Subramanian and Jyothirmoy Bhattacharya] [4]
- "Tribute to Ramanujan"- Poetry by A.K.Ramanujan and Drawings by S.G.Vasudev, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2016[5]
- "Contemporary Pioneers Karnataka" a tribute to K.K.Hebbar conceptualised by Yusuf Arakkal, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2011
- "Contemporary Pioneers Karnataka" -a tribute to Yusuf Arakkal, Rangoli Metro Art Centre, Bangalore, 2017 [6]
References
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Pharmaceutical/Neutraceutical Industry
[edit | edit source]In 2001, Subramanian co-founded DESA India, a Supply Chain Management company in Pharmaceutical Chemicals in Bangalore, India. She founded DESA Life Sciences, LLC, Santa Monica, California in 2019, an SCM space in Neutraceuticals..
Notes
___________________________________________________________1. "City of Santa Monica acquires Edgar Ramirez painting from Frieze Los Angeles*.The Art Newspaper, 18 Feb 2023 Retrieved 10 Dec 2025.
2. Govindarajan Nirmala "Art and the City" .The Hindu, 07 Aug 2014 Retrieved 10 Dec 2025.
3. Jayanthy Madhukar "Contemporary but Pioneers" .Bangalore Mirror,14 Feb, 2011 Retrieved 10 Dec 2025.
4. Aruna Chandaraju "State's best" .The Hindu, 22 Feb 2011 Retrieved 10 Dec 2025
5. Govindarajan Nirmala "It's black, It's white" The Hindu,19 Dec 2015 Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
6.Svetlana Lasrado "Building lives through Art" The New Indian Express, 10 Jul 2014 Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
7. Madhukar Jayanthy "Rhyme on a canvas" Bangalore Mirror, 30 Nov 2014 Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
8. Govindarajan Nirmala "Where words and Canvas converge" The Hindu, 30 Sep 2015 Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
9. "My favourite artist is Jehangir Sabarwala" Bangalore Mirror, 24 Apr, 2010 Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
10."Taking art to the Plebians" Bangalore Mirror, 31 Jan 2015, Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
11. "Artist and their muses" Bangalore Mirror 25 Apr 2010, Retrieved 11 Dec 2025
12. "The man in the mirror" Bangalore Mirror, 06 Mar 2014 Retrieved 11 Dec 2025.
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34.https://boldjourney.com/meet-deepa-subramanian/
35.https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2019/Dec/14/art-of-the-matter-2075849.html
36.https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/States-best/article15454805.ece
37.https://www.ritzmagazine.in/art-in-discussion/
38.https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/books-and-art/270517/an-ode-to-the-dutiful.html
40.https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2014/Jul/10/building-lives-through-art-634154.html
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48.https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/where-words-and-canvas-converge/article7706844.ece
- Deepa Subramanian, "White nights in Paris," [review] Bangalore Mirror, October 11, 2014
- Galerie De'Arts