Siddhi Verma is a mixed media artist from Dehradun, India, currently living and practicing in New York City. Her work constructs layered, dreamlike spaces where architectural fragments, organic forms, and figurative elements converge to explore themes of personal identity, cultural memory, and shifting narratives. Drawing from her cross-cultural experience between India and the United States, she builds compositions that balance oppositions - structure and fluidity, real and imagined, East and West. Siddhi completed her Associate's degree in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 2025. As an emerging artist, Siddhi Verma continues to develop a multidisciplinary practice rooted in immediacy, introspection, and layered narrative.
Artist Statement
My work explores thoughts as architecture: an unfolding spatial logic shaped by thought, emotion, and cultural inheritance.
Drawing from my cross-cultural life between India and the United States, I construct dreamlike compositions where imagined architecture holds personal and cultural histories. My process is an act of unifying different experiences by balancing contrasts- rigid with fluid, architecture with nature, real with imagined, East with West, ancient with modern. Each piece becomes a journey through fragmented thoughts, layered experiences, and shifting narratives.Often starting out directly with a marker, I build my compositions like worlds - through wandering, through mistakes, through memory. Each work explores an underlying sense of balance and movement within a composition. The structured forms of architecture and the organic forms of nature are, in essence, a dialogue between geometric and fluid shapes - rectangles and circles. I am fascinated by how these elements coexist, not in opposition, but as a unified whole.
Most of my works are small to medium-sized, created primarily on paper and canvas, typically ranging from 8x10 to 16x20 inches. This intimate scale supports the immediacy and responsiveness that drive my process. While my works often begin as intuitive marker drawings, they gradually accumulate layers of other materials - acrylics, watercolor, colored pencil, oil pastel, ink, dyes - based on the content and emotional tone of each piece.
