Deepa Subramanian

Deepa Subramanian
Deepa Subramanian at Galerie De'Arts, Santa Monica, CA. 2025.
Born1968 (age 56–57)
Chennai, India
Alma materUniversity of Madras
OccupationsArt 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

  • 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, The 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]
  • "Monsoon Moods" Milind Nayak, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2017 [7]
  • "Fly like a bird: Birds in contemporary art" Rekha Hebbar Rao, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore [8]
  • "Of Masters and heroes" Art residency curated by Vidhya Gnana Gouresan, Singapore and co-curated by Deepa Subramanian 2013 [9]
  • "Of sounds and silences" Raviram Ramakrishnan, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Aug 2013 [10]
  • "The Lotus Pond" Milind Nayak, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Nov 2011
  • "The unfolding of the self" Shan Re, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Nov 2011 [11]
  • "Magic of myriad colours" Paresh Hazra and Aditi Hazra, The Taj West End, Bangalore, Nov 2012 [12]
  • "Charcoal and Gold" Paresh Hazra, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore,Oct 2010, [13]
  • "The many faces of India" 1 MG Mall, Bangalore, 2015 [14]
  • "Intelligence in the field" by Surendra Kumar Sagar and illustrations by Bharati Sagar, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore [15]
  • "Holy Cow" P.Gnana,Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, May 2011
  • "From Hong Kong to India" Shailaja Gidwani, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2012 [16]
  • "Dreams and Realities" Kazi Anirban, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Apr 2010 [17]
  • "The state of Zen" Shan Re and Romi Revola , Galerie De'Arts, Dec 2009

References

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  1. ^ "Meet Deepa Subramanian - Art Gallerist & Curator". Shoutout LA. June 6, 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  2. ^ Tabassum, Ayesha (November 5, 2013). "Of chemicals and colors". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
  3. ^ "Sketching the Soul of a Metropolis". New Indian Express. August 11, 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  4. ^ Madhukar, Jayanthi (April 11, 2012). "It takes two to tango". Bangalore Mirror. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  5. ^ Ramdev, Darshana (May 17, 2019). "Urban Legend: Painting with the colours of the wind - Gurudas Shenoy". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  6. ^ "Making art works affordable". The New Indian Express. May 16, 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  7. ^ Govindarajan, Nirmala (August 7, 2014). "Art and the city". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
  8. ^ "An artsy wedding soirée in Bengaluru". Times of India. June 8, 2019. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
  9. ^ Govindarajan, Nirmala (September 30, 2015). "Where words and canvas converge". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
  10. ^ "Discoveries - 16 Nov — 2 Dec 2024 at the bG Gallery in Santa Monica, United States". Meer Art Magazine. November 22, 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  11. ^ Cheng, Scarlet (February 18, 2023). "City of Santa Monica acquires Edgar Ramirez painting from Frieze Los Angeles". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  12. ^ Hazard, Elizabeth (July 24, 2025). "Summer is in Bloom for Artist Astrid Preston". Splash Magazines. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
  13. ^ "Discoveries - Getty PST (Now Online) Art & Science Collide". bG Gallery. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
  14. ^ "1:1 - September 5th-10th at bG Gallery". DNA Festival Santa Monica. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
  15. ^ Hazard, Elizabeth (December 12, 2022). "Plugged: Unplugged with Mixed Media Artist L.A. Marler". Fine Art Globe.
  16. ^ "Enchanted India - art exhibition". Art Week. Retrieved 4 October 2025.

Pharmaceutical/Neutraceutical Industry

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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