Sumali Piyatissa

Sumali (Buki) is a self-taught artist from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is an Accountant by profession and her love for art birthed a keen desire to pursue if further, where she
gave up her daily work as a financial advisor and took up art professionally. Today, Sumali is an active artist, who develops her own style and artistic identity. She enjoys
experimenting with different mediums and textures. The dominant style of her paintings is abstract and differs from traditional techniques to a blend of modern mixed media techniques.
Sumali’s inspiration is drawn from nature,travel and the surrounding beauty that captures her eye. Her paintings represent freedom, joy and positivity.
Sumali has exhibited her work at Art fairs in Sri Lanka, London, Austria, Madrid, Switzerland and Sweden. She has had two solo exhibitions to date. She is currently
selling her artwork on international platforms and is working with renowned interior designers on diverse Projects.

Self taught artist.

Masters Degree in Business Management - Adelaide, Australia - Nov’10

Solo Exhibition:
Genese - Feb 2015 (Sri Lanka)
Kolorflo - Jul 2017 (Sri Lanka)

Group Exhibitions:

- Her Vision, Her Voice - Group exhibition in Galle, Sri Lanka - Feb 2024
- Contemporary art exhibition- Brick lane gallery, London (April 2023)
- Women of the world - NFT art fair (22-25 Jun 2022) - Nowhere Gallery NYC.
- Novum Basel - Art climate change online exhibition - Mar 2022
- Artbox Project World 2.0- Urbanside Galler (Feb2022)
- Artbox Project Zurich - Aug 2021
- Art Climate change - Novum Basel, Switzerland - 7.6-7.7.2021
- Sonia Monti Gallerie - Paris - Group exhibition - Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
- Women by Women - Virtual art exhibition - May 2020 by Hansford and sons gallery & Emerging artist platform - UK
- Art Innsbruck 2020 – Jan 2020, Austria (In collaboration with Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid)
- Collective Art Show – Mar 3rd to 15th 2020 – Van Gogh Art Gallery , Madrid, Spain.
- Roys Art fair – Oct 2019 (London, UK)

Brush with strokes – II (2014 – Sri Lanka)
Kala Pola – (Sri Lanka – 2013/Feb 2020)