Shruti Ghatak is an Indian-born Seattle-based artist working in different drawing and painting mediums. Her works are inspired by everyday life experiences, conversations and personal memories. Displacement, belongings, and identity take center stage in her work as she explores the genres of figurative landscape, still life, and portraiture. Change of place has always been a source of inspiration to her—memories of old places and dreams of the new mingling amongst the chaos of the present.

Ghatak received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from New York Studio School, NY, USA and an MS in Color technology from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. She has an interdisciplinary background and studied both Science and Art with the belief that crossing boundaries often opens up new ways of seeing.

She considers her works as journal pages or an autobiography where people, places, objects, memory, and imagination collide with no particular order or rule, celebrating the union of observation, invention, and memory. “All immigrants live in multiple landscapes.”