About Sandeep Soni

Artist

Sandeep Soni is a multifaceted artist, graphic and fashion designer, and a professional petroleum engineer based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

His academic background includes an MBA and MS in Business Analytics from the University of Massachusetts, an MSc in Petroleum Engineering with Distinction from Heriot-Watt University in the UK, and a B.Tech from IIT (Indian School of Mines) in India.

His artistic style is largely surrealistic, expressionistic, and abstract contemporary. Working primarily in oil, acrylic, and mixed media, he captures life in all its forms — human, natural, and cosmic. Influenced by philosophy, yoga, meditation, and abstraction, his work incorporates a dream-like state of imagination.

Beyond painting, Sandeep plays guitar and ukulele, practices graphic design, origami, photography, and travel. His guiding phrases: 'Balance in the Chaos' and 'Letting the art happen.'

"Art, for me, goes way beyond colors on a canvas. It's the whole existence around us — constantly building and dissolving, moment to moment. Art was here before us and it'll be here long after. We don't create it so much as catch it happening. In the world we live in, it shows up everywhere — paintings, music, poetry, cooking, sport, yoga, meditation. Everything. And nothing. All at once. That's really the heart of what I believe: let the art happen. Don't force it. Just allow it to unfold.

I'm always learning — from people, from places, from failures — and I hope I never stop. What genuinely fascinates me is finding balance inside chaos. That tension between form and spontaneity. The stillness hiding inside motion. That's here art lives for me. I don't stick to one style — that would feel like putting a ceiling on curiosity. I'd rather roam. Balance in the Chaos is my compass. Those small, clear moments inside all the noise. That's the whole thing, really."

Artist Statement

Chronicles of Creativity: Exhibition Certificates Collection

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