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{{Short description|Art curator}}
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| name = Deepa Subramanian
| image = File:Deepa Subramanian in 2025 at Galerie De'Arts, Santa Monica, CA.png
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| caption = Deepa Subramanian at Galerie De'Arts, Santa Monica, CA. 2025.
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| birth_date = 1968
| birth_place = [[Chennai, India]]
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| alma_mater = [[University of Madras]]
| occupation = Art curator and gallerist
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'''Deepa Subramanian''' (born 1968) is an [[Indian-American]] [[curator]], art [[gallerist]] and an entrepreneur [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/deepa-subramanian-desa-india/articleshow/25272741.cms?] based in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[United States]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Meet Deepa Subramanian - Art Gallerist & Curator |url=https://shoutoutla.com/meet-deepa-subramanian-art-gallerist-curator/ |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=Shoutout LA |date=June 6, 2022}}</ref>

She grew up in [[Chennai, India]], and graduated from [[Madras University]] in 1988. In 2001, she co-founded a [[supply chain]] management business in [[Chemical industry|pharmaceutical chemicals]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tabassum |first1=Ayesha |title=Of chemicals and colors |access-date=4 October 2025 |publisher=Bangalore Mirror |url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/deepa-subramanian-desa-india/articleshow/25272741.cms?|date=November 5, 2013}}</ref>

In March 2009, she founded Galerie De'Arts, a contemporary art gallery in [[Bangalore, India]] in the precinct, Barton Centre.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sketching the Soul of a Metropolis |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2014/aug/11/sketching-the-soul-of-a-metropolis-646352.html?botrequest=true |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=New Indian Express |date=August 11, 2014 |archive-date=23 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250123113628/https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2014/aug/11/sketching-the-soul-of-a-metropolis-646352.html?botrequest=true |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> Galerie De'Arts represented established and emerging artists from [[South India]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Madhukar |first1=Jayanthi |title=It takes two to tango |url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/it-takes-two-to-tango/articleshow/21400136.cms |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=Bangalore Mirror |date=April 11, 2012 |archive-date=21 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250521055218/https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/it-takes-two-to-tango/articleshow/21400136.cms |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ramdev |first1=Darshana |title=Urban Legend: Painting with the colours of the wind - Gurudas Shenoy|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/books-and-art/180519/urban-legend-painting-with-the-colours-of-the-wind-gurudas-shenoy.html |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=Deccan Chronicle |date=May 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Making art works affordable |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2011/Apr/20/making-art-works-affordable-246116.html |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=The New Indian Express |date=May 16, 2012}}</ref> She has curated several art exhibitions in Bangalore, India and has worked with pioneering artists like [https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/its-black-its-white/article8008357.ece S.G.Vasudev] , [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/contemporary-but-pioneers/articleshow/21676297.cms Yusuf Arakkal] and [[Balan Nambiar]] [https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/States-best/article15454805.ece]. The gallery closed post-COVID-19 in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Govindarajan |first1=Nirmala |title=Art and the city |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/art-and-bangalore/article6292229.ece |access-date=4 October 2025 |publisher=The Hindu |date=August 7, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=An artsy wedding soirée in Bengaluru |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/bangalore/an-artsy-wedding-soire-in-bengaluru/articleshow/69699681.cms |access-date=4 October 2025 |publisher=Times of India |date=June 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Govindarajan |first1=Nirmala |title=Where words and canvas converge |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/where-words-and-canvas-converge/article7706844.ece |access-date=4 October 2025 |publisher=The Hindu |date=September 30, 2015}}</ref>

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]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Discoveries - 16 Nov — 2 Dec 2024 at the bG Gallery in Santa Monica, United States |url=https://www.meer.com/en/85374-discoveries |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=Meer Art Magazine |date=November 22, 2024 |archive-date=10 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210181446/https://www.meer.com/en/85374-discoveries |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cheng |first1=Scarlet |title=City of Santa Monica acquires Edgar Ramirez painting from Frieze Los Angeles |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/18/city-of-santa-monica-acquires-edgar-ramirez-painting-at-frieze |access-date=5 October 2025 |publisher=The Art Newspaper |date=February 18, 2023}}</ref>

== 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..

==Notable curatorial works==
* ''Summer in Bloom: A floral interpretation by [[Astrid Preston]]'', Galerie De'Arts, June 2025<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hazard |first1=Elizabeth |title=Summer is in Bloom for Artist Astrid Preston |url=https://splashmags.com/2025/07/summer-is-in-bloom-for-artist-astrid-preston/ |access-date=16 September 2025 |publisher=Splash Magazines |date=July 24, 2025}}</ref>
* ''"Intersections" for the PST Art, Art and Science Collide'', an initiative by the [[J. Paul Getty Museum|J.Paul Getty Museum]], [Co-curated by Om Bleicher, Sung-Hee-Son and Deepa Subramanian], 2025<ref>{{cite web |title=Discoveries - Getty PST (Now Online) Art & Science Collide |url=https://santamonica.bgartdealings.com/show/bg-gallery-discoveries-getty-pst-art-and-science-collide |website=bG Gallery |access-date=4 October 2025 |archive-date=15 August 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250815054615/https://santamonica.bgartdealings.com/show/bg-gallery-discoveries-getty-pst-art-and-science-collide |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* ''"Intersect Aspen'', bG Gallery [booth], [[Aspen, Colorado]], 2025
* Scottsdale Arts Festival, bG Gallery [booth], [[Scottsdale, Arizona]], 2025
* Art Miami, [[Art Basel Miami Beach|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<ref>{{cite web |title=1:1 - September 5th-10th at bG Gallery |url=https://www.dnafestivalsm.com/events/1-to-1 |website=DNA Festival Santa Monica |access-date=4 October 2025 |archive-date=4 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251004163222/https://www.dnafestivalsm.com/events/1-to-1 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* ''[[Louise Marler|LA Marler]] Solo'', [[LA Art Show|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<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hazard |first1=Elizabeth |title=Plugged: Unplugged with Mixed Media Artist L.A. Marler |url=https://fineartglobe.com/artists/plugged-unplugged-with-mixed-media-artist-l-a-marler/ |publisher=Fine Art Globe |date=December 12, 2022}}</ref>
* ''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<ref>{{cite news |title=Enchanted India - art exhibition |url=https://www.artweek.com/events/united-states/art-exhibition/santa-monica/enchanted-india |access-date=4 October 2025 |publisher=Art Week |archive-date=16 July 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250716150508/https://www.artweek.com/events/united-states/art-exhibition/santa-monica/enchanted-india |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* ''Intersections'', Mike Saijo, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2020
* "Poetry in colours" , Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2014 [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/sunday-read/rhyme-on-a-canvas/articleshow/45323284.cms]
* "Black and White" S.G.Vasudev and [[Jogen Chowdhury|Jogen Choudhary]], [[Ritz-Carlton Bangalore|The Ritz Carlton, Bangalore]], 2015 [Co-curated by Deepa Subramanian and Jyothirmoy Bhattacharya] [https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/its-black-its-white/article8008357.ece]
* "Tribute to Ramanujan"- Poetry by [[A. K. Ramanujan|A.K.Ramanujan]] and Drawings by [[S. G. Vasudev|S.G.Vasudev]], Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2016 [https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/books-and-art/300716/ramanujans-verse-vasudevs-strokes-converse.html]
* "Contemporary Pioneers Karnataka" a tribute to [[K. K. Hebbar|K.K.Hebbar]] conceptualised by [[Yusuf Arakkal]], Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, [https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/States-best/article15454805.ece 2011]
* "Contemporary Pioneers Karnataka" -a tribute to Yusuf Arakkal, [[Rangoli Metro Art Center|Rangoli Metro Art Centre]], Bangalore, 2017 [https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/190517/something-about-this-tent-just-got-bigger.html]
* "Monsoon Moods" Milind Nayak, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2017 [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/lured-by-the-rains/articleshow/61905696.cms]
* "Fly like a bird: Birds in contemporary art" Rekha Hebbar Rao, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore [https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2015/Apr/21/artist-wistfully-traces-paths-of-birds-now-absent-from-our-skies-745234.html]
* "Of Masters and heroes" Art residency curated by Vidhya Gnana Gouresan, Singapore and co-curated by Deepa Subramanian 2013 [https://bangalore.explocity.com/articles/candid-art/]
* "Of sounds and silences" Raviram Ramakrishnan, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Aug 2013 [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/silent-strokes-of-creative-splendour/articleshow/21172716.cms]
* "The Lotus Pond" Milind Nayak, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Nov [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/nostalgia-in-full-bloom/articleshow/21485011.cms 2011]
* "The unfolding of the self" Shan Re, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Nov 2011 [https://www.news18.com/news/india/invoking-emotions-in-contemporary-art-394909.html]
* "Magic of myriad colours" Paresh Hazra and Aditi Hazra, [[Taj West End Bangalore|The Taj West End]], Bangalore, Nov 2012 [https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/memory-and-imagination/article4085238.ece]
* "Charcoal and Gold" Paresh Hazra, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore,Oct 2010, [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/hazras-art-of-gold/articleshow/21753975.cms]
* "The many faces of India" 1 MG Mall, Bangalore, 2015 [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/sunday-read/plebians-rangoli-metro-art-centre-milind-nayak/articleshow/46078942.cms]
* "Intelligence in the field" by Surendra Kumar Sagar and illustrations by Bharati Sagar, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore [https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/where-words-and-canvas-converge/article7706844.ece]
* "Holy Cow" P.Gnana,Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, May [https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/in-love-with-the-cow/article2065516.ece 2011]
* "From Hong Kong to India" Shailaja Gidwani, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, 2012 [https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/Meditative-impressions/article16206121.ece]
* "Dreams and Realities" Kazi Anirban, Galerie De'Arts, Bangalore, Apr 2010 [https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/painting-black-humor/articleshow/21885962.cms]
* "The state of Zen" Shan Re and Romi Revola , Galerie De'Arts, Dec [https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/art/Artistic-notes/article16854540.ece#google_vignette 2009]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.galeriedeartsconsultancy.com/ Galerie De'Arts]

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