Somnath Bhatt is a designer, artist, and writer interested in the power of the unseen, the chaos of myth, and believes that labor has the right to all it creates. Their signature pixel-based style hybridizes digital techniques, poetic sensibilities, and an eclectic range of visual traditions to uncover the old in the new and, conversely, the new in the old. Bhatt’s work amalgamates ideas that borrow from each other to create new hybrids that transcend existing visual genres. The past and present collide in their work to advance a new era of design that tethers our relationship with what was to new, visionary images of what will be.

Bhatt’s work has been shown at MoMA PS1; India Art Fair (New Delhi); Art Week Dubai; the ICA (London); Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète; Acud Macht Neu (Berlin); Picture Room (New York City); the New York Art Book Fair; and the Brooklyn Art Book Fair. Their first solo exhibition was held in 2020 at ISA Gallery in Shanghai. They have collaborated across disciplines spanning arts, culture, fashion, music, and editorial, including Mitski, Nicolás Jaar, Tresor, Pakistani pop-star Ali Sethi, HYEIN SEO, SSENSE, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. Recently, Somnath finished an 80-foot mural at Wonder Cabinet, an interdisciplinary studio and cultural hub in Bethlehem, Palestine.

Somnath is a member of the Serpentine Galleries’ Synthetic Ecologies Lab along with Angela Dimayuga, Mindy Seu, and Yasaman Sheri, among others. They graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 and were the 2020 Mildred S. Friedman Fellow in Graphic Design at the Walker Art Center.

The artist lives between Ahmedabad and occupied Lenape land, New York City.