Roma Soni

 

"I perform a role as an artist, not to arouse people’s feelings, but to share, tap into, contain and show the path to, and nurture their existing spirits.”

An artist, art historian, and researcher, Roma Madan Soni is a Professor of Visual Arts and Director Designate, currently working to develop the Anant Center for Visual Arts as a humanities interface with Design and Architecture. An active CAA member, she is a part of the CAA-Getty International Program 2022 cohort, the serves on CAA’s Museum Committee, Services to Artists Committee, and CAA’s Council of Readers to review 2023 Annual Conference submissions. Her art, teaching, and research are interdisciplinary, at the intersection of ecofeminism: practice, theory and history, and contemporary visual politics. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Rockefeller Center and the Doris Duke Foundation, Kunsthaus-Steffisburg, TAPRI-Finland, MOMA-Kuwait, and Artsy and Saatchi galleries. She also recently painted the book-cover for Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research (2021).