Angela Trindade

Angela passed away unexpectedly during a family visit to São Paulo, Brazil in 1980. Since then, her work has been exhibited several times. The first solo show of her religious work was shown at in 2014 Fundação Oriente, Goa. Her selected works, both religious and non-religious, were also exhibited in 2016 in Goa and are now permanently exhibited, alongside her father’s paintings under the title Selected Works from the Trindade Collection at Fundação Oriente Delegation in India since January 2021.

On one of her many visits to the United States of America in the 1960s, where she relocated permanently in 1963, Ângela started to explore Tantric Art and Abstract Expressionism, as she believed that only through abstraction could she finally marry Eastern and Western influences in her art.

A versatile artist, Trindade did not shy away from experimenting in both Western and Indian styles. Accordingly, she became famous for both her Western style portraits and paintings of Christian themes in Indian style, as Our lady of Conception, 1956. For the latter she was awarded the Papal decoration Pro-Ecclesia et Pontifice for her contribution to the world of art and culture in 1955. However, it was the creation of Trindadism, a style all her own, that set her apart. Using the cultural and spiritual symbolic dimensions of the triangle in her work, Ângela demonstrated an individual approach to art which highlighted her creativity and individuality as an artist. As extraordinary example of Angela's own style is Shakuntala & the Deer, 1960.

Trindade's early art was deeply influenced by her father’s aesthetics and her western education as is evident in Punjabi with Mandolin (1949)or Town Scene (1948).

While fond of portraiture, Trindade explored a variety of other genres in her paintings such as landscapes, still lifes as well as non-representational forms. In 1949, the artist had the opportunity to present her first solo exhibition abroad at the Fine Art Club, Washington D.C., United States of America.

In 1936 Trindade was awarded the gold medal at the first All India Women Artists Exhibition and in 1947 had her first solo exhibition in India at the Chetana Gallery, Bombay.

Angela Trindade (10 August 1909 – 20 March 1980) was an Indian painter famous for her Western-style portraits and Christian paintings in Indian style. A versatile artists, she also development of her own style, Trindadism, wherein the artist used the symbolic dimensions of the triangle and of trinity that conferred upon Angela a real individual approach to art.

Ângela Trindade was born in Bombay in 1909, to Goan parents Florentina Noronha and the renowned artist António Xavier Trindade.