Amrita Singhal: Hello, Moon

Kala Gallery is excited to present Amrita Singhal: Hello, Moon in Mercy and Roger Smullen Print & Media Study Center.

Singhal grew up in India, surrounded by a natural landscape and shaped by mythology, ritual, and layered systems of belief that continue to inform her work. Her practice moves between discipline and intuition, with paintings developing over time through cycles of building, undoing, and reworking color and form. Singhal is attracted to the physicality of paint and uses color to explore nature, inner experience, and human complexity, with figures emerging intuitively and reflecting multiple identities. Drawing from art history, music, literature and ancient cultures, she creates work that holds the poetic, inchoate, and unresolved.

Amrita Singhal is a painter, printmaker, ceramist and mixed media artist based in Berkeley, California. She studied drawing and art history with the brilliant and reclusive painter Louise Smith who was a colleague of the Bay Area Abstract Expressionists (Diebenkorn, Park, Bischoff et al.) and a one time student of Hans Hoffman and Erle Loran at UC Berkeley. Two of Amrita’s paintings are in the collection of the UC Berkeley Art Museum (BAMPFA) and will be on view August 5, 2026 – July 11, 2027 in the upcoming exhibition, Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection. She has painted a Berkeley Public Works Art mural for Meyer Sound and regularly exhibits her work in solo, group and juried shows. Amrita is also creating a series of immersive works in virtual reality.