Jinal Sangoi is a visual artist, educator and the founder of Drawing Circle. She designs creative methodologies for experiential learning. She is interested in the ideas of care, home, nature, gender and resistance, and tries to weave art, design, pedagogy and community through her participatory and collaborative practice. In 2022, she was invited to paint the cover for Jacarandas are a Deep Shade of Blue, a book with compilation of haibun and photographs by Johannes Manjrekar.
Jinal is a recipient of Singapore International Foundation’s Arts for Good Fellowship, Goethe Institut’s Gender Bender Grant, Tim Disney Prize for the Storytelling Arts, among others. Her art residencies include Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, CalArts-REEF. Jinal is a co-director of the Council for Arts and Social Practice, India. She has designed and facilitated workshops for Learn Through Stories (LeTS), IDC IIT Bombay; and taught Landscape Works at NID in 2021. She has exhibited her work in India and United States among other countries.
Jinal is an MFA from CalArts.