About Me
Bio
Poonu Kulkarni is an Indian abstract artist based in Bangalore. She uses a diverse range of tools, mediums, and techniques to explore the themes of nature, and the cultural and spiritual human experiences in contemporary society. She’s been a physical artist since early childhood and has been pushing the boundaries of digital art since 2022. Her works have been exhibited in many countries around the world.
Pre-NFT and NFT Art Journey
Growing up, I had an art mentor who taught me the fundamentals of oil, acrylic, and watercolour painting. With a focus on landscapes, I used these mediums to produce my initial physical artworks. Throughout my childhood and teenage years, I participated in group exhibitions and won several art contests. However, I didn't have the chance to really develop my artistic abilities until my early twenties. While pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in Bangalore, I enroled for part-time certifications and diplomas in fashion design, interior design, jewellery design, and pottery, spaced across two years, after university hours, to hone my knowledge and skills in these creative fields. Regardless of the artistic medium utilised to illustrate them, these classes gave me a decent understanding of colour, texture, composition, and other elements of design and how they are employed in practice. In my mid to late twenties, I went on to earn Master's degrees, which opened the door to a corporate career. Upon joining the crypto art scene in 2022, I got back to creating art again, which had taken a backseat because of my education and career. Since 2022, I have embraced blockchain technology to tokenize my digital and physical art as NFTs, and I have participated in multiple group exhibitions within the crypto-art space. In 2023, I resigned from my corporate job to focus entirely on my art practice.
Influences
My distinctive artistic style is influenced by abstraction and is built on the foundation of abstract expressionism. The artists who influenced my artistic style and perspective are Georgia O’Keefe, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning and Cy Twombly. I take a lot of cues from my Indian heritage and a mix of Eastern and Western cultural influences for my artistic building process. Travel, movies, photography, and music have all played a significant role in my creative journey and have shaped the manner in which colors, patterns, texture, compositions, and other elements of design are used in my digital and physical abstract works.
Process & Medium
My art is mostly spontaneous and intuitive. I use multiple different mediums, such as oil, acrylics, watercolor, and digital, to create my artworks. I believe that working in a single medium is restrictive to my artistic process. However, my NFT portfolio has been created primarily using diverse digital tools and techniques, aligning with the digital-native space. No AI has been used in the creation of my artworks.
Exhibitions
2025 - Group Exhibition, "Ikigai," curated by Vivid Gallery and Olena Yara, was exhibited in Lisbon on the 7th of June 2025, as part of the official NFC Summit side event, Portugal
2025 - Group Exhibition, "Meditative Exploration," curated by Fidel Amos and ETH Bucharest for a Digital Art Takeover of the National Library of Romania in Bucharest on the 4th and 5th of April 2025, Bucharest
2025 - Displayed on 1000 billboards, “Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will you,” curated by Artcrush Gallery for ‘Spotlight of the Month’ for March, Belgium
2025 - Collective Drop on Bitcoin, "She Blooms," curated as part of the "Visible Violets" initiative and exhibited in Miami, showcasing the works of 20 women artists in web3 on the 8th of March 2025 during Women's History Month, with the help of Trygamma and XverseApp, and curated by One Love Art Dao
2025 - Group Exhibition, “The Curves of Eiffel,” curated as a part of the “Threads of Modernity” event and showcased at the Good News Studio satellite show at Artverse Gallery during NFT Paris 2025, Paris
2024 - Group Exhibition, “Moss on Rocks,” Curated by Gamma.io for ‘Inscribing Miami 2024,’ Miami Art Week, Miami
2024 - Group Exhibition, “A Beautiful Contradiction,” an online group exhibition published in a collective art book entitled "Bloom: A Floral Exploration”
2024 - Group Exhibition, “Space Walk,” curated by Meta Betties for ‘Interstellar Overdrive: The Art of Space Exploration,’ The Canvas 3.0 Gallery, NYC
2024 - Group Exhibition, “Prema,” curated by One Love Art Dao for ‘One Love NYC Art Exhibition,’ The Canvas 3.0 Gallery, during NFT NYC week, NYC
2024 - Group Exhibition, “La Dolce Vita,” North Javits, curated by NFT NYC, NYC
2024 - Group Exhibitions: “Divine Love Story of Eternity” and “Mitra” were exhibited in the CODA XIV and CODA XVI Solana Exhibitions.
2024 - Group Exhibition, “Sakura,” NFTopia, Bern, Switzerland
2023 - Group Exhibition, “The Divine Love Story of Eternity,” curated by Unfold Gallery, Miami Art Week, Miami
2023 - Group Exhibition, “We Carry The World,” WXw3 Exhibit, a Makersplace initiative featuring 50 women artists in web3, NFT Paris, Paris
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