About Angad
A life lived
between forms.
I was never looking for the perfect job title. I was looking for a context large enough to hold all of who I am.
Between places, identities and disciplines
Between roots
and possibility.
My work often begins in the space between things: structure and instinct, inheritance and self-discovery, discipline and play, who we have been and who we are becoming.
Even today, I live and work between Chandigarh and Goa. The two places draw out different and sometimes contradictory facets of who I am. They give me the space to explore and express both.
Chandigarh and Punjab connect me to my roots. They hold my family, my history and an ongoing search for identity and belonging.
Goa gives me room to loosen my grip, follow my curiosity and simply be, without always having to explain what I am doing or why.
For a long time, I thought these were different versions of me. I now understand that both are essential parts of the same whole.
That duality runs through my practice. Across art, media, technology and public culture, I keep returning to one question:
What becomes possible when we stop editing ourselves into something easier to understand and give ourselves permission to express more honestly?
The practice
Exploring human instinct through art and technology.
Angad Singh Sodhi is an interdisciplinary artist, storyteller and cultural instigator exploring human instinct through art and technology.
Working across painting, photography, augmented reality, public art and participatory cultural projects, his practice examines identity, memory, belonging, free expression and the ongoing process of becoming. His work often begins with personal questions about Sikh identity, inherited culture, home and the freedom to be fully oneself, then expands into shared spaces where other people can notice, question and express more freely.
His bodies of work include The Way of the Warrior, a fine-art documentary and augmented-reality exploration of Sikh Nihang traditions; contemporary interpretations of Phulkari as an archive of women’s memory; and The Essence of a City, which explores Chandigarh as a living culture beyond its architectural monuments.
Angad’s wider practice connects art with emerging technology, community and cultural systems. He co-founded Colours of India NFT, established India’s first full-time NFT gallery with Social in Bengaluru, and created IXC.art as a platform for the evolving culture of Chandigarh. His work in provenance and strategy extends these ideas of trust, identity and value into food systems, crafts and organisations.
Free Expression is the philosophy connecting these different forms of practice. From it, Angad is developing The Instinct Method, a framework that helps people cut through noise, trust what they notice and turn their human signal into original, meaningful action.
The continuing question
How can we use technology to become more fully human, rather than less?
Across artworks, public projects, workshops, strategy and conversations, this is the question that keeps the different forms of the practice connected.