SELECT MURALS + VINYLS
Sandeep has created murals and vinyls for festivals (Vancouver Mural Festival, Nelson Mural Festival, Wall to Wall Winnipeg), galleries (Vancouver Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, The Reach Gallery), municipalities and business improvement associations (New Westminster, Coquitlam, Sunset on Fraser BIA), property developers (Century Group, Lowtide Properties, Anthem Property Group), as well as for clients (Lululemon, Bard on the Beach, and Jam Jar Canteen).
FULL BLOOM (2024) | Mural Design | Paintillio Enterprises, Inc.
SWING INTO SPRING (2023) | Photo tex | Central City Shopping Centre | Located at 2153 Central City 10153 King George Blvd, Surrey BC | VMF Agency x Nicola Wealth
Photo Credit: Phil Tifo
IT’S NOT WHAT YOU LOOK AT THAT MATTERS, IT’S WHAT YOU SEE (2022) | Window vinyl | Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
UNTITLED (2022) | Anthem Properties Georgetown One | Located at 13685 102 Avenue, Surrey, BC
COME AS YOU ARE (2022) | Sunset on Fraser Business Improvement Association | Located at 6204 Fraser Street, Vancouver BC
UNTITLED (2022) | St. John’s School | Located at 2215 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver BC
WHAT HOPE SHALL WE GATHER, WHAT DREAMS SHALL WE SOW? (Oct 2021-2022)
Window vinyl | Vancouver Art Gallery x Vancouver Art Rental and Sales Program | Located at 750 Hornby Street, Vancouver BC
Photo Credit: Ian Lefebvre
STILL WE RISE (2021) | Lowtide Properties x Vancouver Mural Festival | Located at 855 East Hastings Street, Vancouver BC
Photo Credit: Gabriel Martins
A LOVE LETTER TO MITHAI (2021) | Punjabi Market x Vancouver Mural Festival | Located at 6587 Main Street (Himalaya Restaurant), Vancouver BC
Vancouver’s Punjabi Market was the first of its kind in North America. For the first time in its 51 year history, a series of murals have been painted between 49th and 51st Avenues on Main Street. Murals in the Market, in partnership with Vancouver Mural Festival, is the Punjabi Market Regeneration Collective’s initiative to help facilitate storytelling through public art by collaborating with local BIPOC artists to deliver a series of murals in Punjabi Market.
UNTITLED (2021) | Solaro by Century Group Development | Located at 22304 50 Ave, Langley BC
Photo Credit: Provoke Studios
OUR MEMORIES (2021) | In partnership with Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre, South Vancouver Neighbourhood House, and the City of Vancouver | Located at Ross Park, Vancouver BC
Photo Credit: Joseph Bronson
This artwork reflects the written and oral stories shared by ten storytellers—Darshan Sangha, Harjinder Grewal, Harvinder Aulakh, Kanta Kalia, Kulwant Shoker, Manjit Jugpal, Paramjit Kalkat, Ravinder Hundal, Shanti Devi Toor, and Suminder Gill—as part of creative writing and storytelling circles led by artist Alyssa Martens from the Arts & Health: Healthy Aging Through the Arts project at Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre.
The first frame depicts a water buffalo (ਮੱਝ), referencing childhood stories about village life in India. Two dancing girls, their hair flowing, signify carefree youth. These lead into stories of migration to Canada—the hearts trailing behind the plane symbolizing all that was left behind. Cooking scenes celebrate the importance of food in Indian culture, the love and relationships that grow through shared meals. Birds in the tree reflect the legacy left behind by the storytellers—their children and grandchildren. Lastly, there is a flashback—a treasured memory of cooking over a camp-style open fire or (ਚੁਲਾ).
MIM + RORI (2020) | Pizzeria Barbarella, 2020 | Located at 654 East Broadway, Vancouver BC
ONE DAY (2020) | Nelson International Mural Festival | Located on the Parkade in the parking lot of the Hume Hotel at 422 Vernon Street, Nelson BC
HANG IN THERE (2020) | Vancouver Mural Festival | Located at 1132 Robson Street, Vancouver BC
Vancouver Mural Festival partnered with a number of local businesses and Business Improvement Associations to support local artists while bringing hope and positivity to the streets in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. With boarded up windows becoming an increasingly common occurrence in neighbourhoods across the city, VMF enlisted a large group of its alumni and other local artists to donate temporary mural work to these locations. All artists designed imagery and messages to spark joy and/or celebrate the resilience of our communities. #MakeArtWhileApart
UNTITLED (2020) | Vancouver Mural Festival HQ | Located at 2410 Columbia Street, Vancouver BC
FULL CIRCLE (2019) | Uptown Mural Festival | Located at Valley First Credit Union at Highway 33 and Rutland Rd, Kelowna BC
Photo credit: Megan Bowers
Live Painting |Kaleidoscope Festival, 2019 |Coquitlam BC
Taike-sye’yə (2019) | Vancouver Mural Festival | Located at 125 East 10th Avenue, Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Gabriel Hall
Musqueam artists Alicia Point and Cyler Sparrow-Point and South-Asian Canadian artists Keerat Kaur, Sunroop Kaur, and Sandeep Johal and historian Naveen Girn have produced a collaborative site-specific mural named Taike-Sye’yə. This mural centers the commemoration of the Komagata Maru Episode that occurred in 1914 in the Burrard Inlet where 368 predominantly Sikh passengers were denied entrance to Canada based on the newly created "Continuous Passage Law" designed to block immigration of racialized people into Canada. Specifically, the artwork depicts oral accounts given by both South Asian and Musqueam community members who tell of the Musqueam paddlers who canoed out across the inlet to feed the passengers on the boat as they were blocked access to the shore for 62 days. The collaborative mural transforms 4,000 square feet of the exterior wall of the Harry Stevens Federal Building at 125 East 10th Avenue (Vancouver) into a highly visible public site of remembrance and site for sparking dialogue regarding promotion of cultural redress with Indigenous and South Asian communities. Note: The Harry Stevens, the building’s namesake, was a central governmental figure in the denial of the passenger's entry into Canada during the Komagata Maru Episode.
UNFOLD YOUR OWN MYTH (2019) | Bard on the Beach 30th Anniversary | Vancouver, BC
UNTITLED (2019) | Jamjar Canteen | Located at 2290 Commercial Drive, Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Laara Cerman
ALTARS (2019) | Commissioned by Vancouver Art Gallery as part of the interpretive area for Moving Still: Performative Photography in India, Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Ian Lefebvre
The Vancouver Art Gallery has partnered with a number of community and research partners to develop a rich picture of India’s ecology. Through video documentation, exhibition publications and an ongoing schedule of public programming, this interpretive space is organized for viewers to consider and expand on the themes in the exhibition Moving Still: Performative Photography In India. In collaboration with the Gallery, Vancouver-based writer Sirish Rao has selected quotes related to the themes of the exhibition. These propositions appear above the four niches and are further communicated through accompanying wall murals by local artist Sandeep Johal. Each corner includes a selection of books and artist monographs, in addition to a large monitor screening biographical videos, artist talks, films and other contextual documentation related to the exhibition.
MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE (2019) | Lululemon Men’s Store at Park Royal | Located at 1000 Main Street, West Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Laara Cerman
MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE (2019) | Lululemon Women’s Store at Park Royal | Located at 1000 Main Street, West Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Laara Cerman
UNTITLED (2018) | Wall to Wall Mural Festival | Located at 126 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg MB
Photo credit (left): Emily Christie
UNTITLED (2018) | Civic Hotel by Century Group Development | Located at 13475 Central Avenue, Surrey BC
Photo credit: Laara Cerman
RAISE YOUR WORDS, NOT YOUR VOICE (2018) | ArtSmash x Vancouver Mural Festival | Located at Chain + Forge, Granville Island, Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Maria Angerilli (top), Carlos Bonmati (bottom)
FRIEND OR FOE (2018) | Thrive Art Studio group show at Kafkas Coffee and Tea, Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Laara Cerman
GIRLS ARE FIERCE LIKE TIGERS (2017) | Vancouver Mural Festival | Located at 147 East Broadway, Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Joseph Bronson (top), The Daily Hive Van (bottom)
UNTITLED (2017) | Thrive Art Studio Mural Residency Program at The Profile Co-Working Business Club, Vancouver BC
Photo credit: Laara Cerman
FLOW (2017) | City of New Westminster | Located at Front Street between 6th and Begbie |Designed by Sandeep Johal; painted by Jason Statler
Photo credit: Biliana Velkova
UNTITLED (2016) | Strathcona BIA in partnership with the HxBIA as part of the Hastings Urban Tree Nursery | Located at Jackson Avenue and Powell Street, Vancouver BC