Praneet Soi

Praneet Soi is an artist born in Kolkata in 1971. He moved to Amsterdam in 2002 to attend the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, and divides his time between the two cities. This oscillatory movement impacts his practice. Over time, Soi identifies patterns that emerge from an investigation of his extended social and economic landscape, and explores these across a multidisciplinary practice. Working in a wide range of media, spanning painting, drawing, collage, text, audio-visual assemblages and intertwining the languages of visual culture, literature, cinema and architecture, Soi suggests possibilities for imagining a new human condition, marked by intensified forces of modernity and progress.
Praneet Soi represented India at the 54th Venice Biennale and was granted a Smithsonian artist research fellowship at the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.