Jinal Sangoi is a visual artist and educator. She is interested in designing creative methodologies for experiential learning. Her work explores ideas of care, home, nature, gender, and resistance, weaving together art, design, pedagogy, and community through participatory and collaborative practices. Currently, Jinal is the co-director at the Council for Arts and Social Practice and teaches at the IDC School of Design at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay), India.
Her accolades include the Singapore International Foundation’s Arts for Good Fellowship, Goethe-Institut’s Gender Bender Grant, and the Tim Disney Prize for the Storytelling Arts. Jinal has participated in residencies such as Yaddo, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and CalArts-REEF. She has designed and led workshops for Learn Through Stories (LeTS) and taught the course Landscape Works at the National Institute of Design. Additionally, she has taught children at Oakwood School in North Hollywood and the Child Care Centre at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, as well as engaged in various teaching projects in India and the United States. Her work has been exhibited in India, the United States, and beyond.
Jinal holds an MFA from CalArts.