About Pranav Sood

Pranav Sood (b. 1995, Punjab, India) now lives in New York. He works primarily with acrylic, gouache, and watercolors both on canvas and paper. Each painting details a chapter of a hero's journey toward personal and spiritual completion through abstracted narratives, profoundly optimistic in their persistence in the face of travails and tragedies. Sood's protagonists grapple with perpetual existential struggles.

Through painstakingly rendered patterns and lines, He develops a complex iconography to explore romantic and familial relationships, notions of identity and self, and spiritual and philosophical trials with humor, innuendo, and metaphor, emphasizing the need for devotion and determination.

Sood is influenced by Indian miniature painting and received an MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020). In 2023, Sood’s work was curated at the Museum of Wisconsin Art among the 10 most emerging artists from Wisconsin. His latest solo shows include “I am Absolutely Absolute” (Abel Contemporary Gallery, 2022), and “Life is About Love & Love is Complicated” (Abel Contemporary Gallery and Al Ringling Theater Gallery, 2020).

Sood is also included in a juried group exhibition with a Solo booth, “I am more than who I am” (Spring/Break art show, 2021), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Wisconsin Triennial 2019-2020), and curated in a group exhibition: Ancient Modern (Abel contemporary gallery, 2020).

His work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Bushwick Daily, Madison Essentials magazine, The Wisconsin State Journal, Baraboo News Republic, The Cap Times, and Isthmus.

His work recently became part of the Hall Art Foundation.