Siddhi Verma is a mixed media artist from Dehradun, India, residing and practicing in New York City. Weaving together architectural fragments, organic forms, and figurative imagery, she creates layered, dreamlike spaces that explore themes of personal identity, culture, everyday life, and broader global happenings. Working primarily with markers and acrylics, Siddhi Verma's intuitive process embraces raw and honest expression of ideas. She is currently developing her practice as a student at Pratt Institute.
Artist Statement
My work explores thoughts and ideas as spaces that can be walked through and experienced. Shaped by my cross-cultural experiences between India and the United States, each piece becomes a journey through fragmented thoughts, layered experiences, and shifting narratives. Working primarily with markers and acrylic, I build these worlds through a process of continuous discovery, allowing the compositions to emerge intuitively as lines and forms interact. I create artworks where staircases spiral into botanical forms, cultural motifs weave between city streets, and imagery from different time periods and geographic regions converges into a single frame. Real places transform into dreamlike spaces where thoughts and questions about history, identity, memory, culture, and imagination collide. These dreamlike compositions reflect the fluid, nonlinear ways we remember, feel, and exist in the world.
