My paintings are conversations between the notion of the familiar and the questions it raises through the medium of painting. The work is never about arriving at a resolution, but maintaining the question, not out of any existential romanticism, but the sheer joy of the hunt. The paintings begin long before I pick up a brush, with a desire to manufacture out of the familiar a situation that is in itself a hybrid. Working against the factual nameability, the paintings are extensions of this metamorphosis.

Sangram Majumdar was born in Calcutta (Kolkata), India and immigrated to the US in 1990. He has an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sangram has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and has also lectured on his work at numerous colleges including RISD, PAFA, SUNY-Purchase, Princeton University and the New York Studio School. Recent solo exhibitions include Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY; Rothschild Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Pulse, NY; the Jerusalem Studio School, Israel, and the Kresge Art Museum, MI. Recent selected group exhibition venues include Rutgers University, NJ; The Painting Center, NY; Alpha Gallery, MA; the 2010 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY; US Embassy, Sierra Leone; the International School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy and the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan. His awards include the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program Grant, a MICA Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, two Maryland State Art Council Individual Grants in Painting, and two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants. His work has been published in drawing textbooks: Drawing Essentials: A Guide to Drawing from Observation (Oxford University Press, 2008), Drawing: Structure and Vision, (Prentice Hall, 2008) and Exploring Life Drawing (Thompson Delmar Publishing, 2007).  Since 2003 he has been teaching painting and drawing at the Maryland Institute College of Art and is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NY.

Sangram Majumdar lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.