I was born into a family of artists. With my father Subrata Gangopadhyay being a very popular illustrator and eminent Fine Artist, I was surrounded by paint, paper, canvas, and the smell of oil paint from a young age. I realized early on that I was born to be an artist. I had the opportunity to travel the world and worked professionally in the design and animation industry. In the USA, I worked with many street and urban artists and served as an artist assistant under the tutelage of internationally famous contemporary pop art legend Craig Alan. After graduating from the SCAD Atlanta MFA program in 2014, I joined Deljou Art Group—the global leader in Fine Art Publishing—where I am currently a Lead Artist making art in my studio at the Deljou Art Complex in West Midtown, Atlanta. As a curatorial assistant, I have also worked with renowned New York curators Raul Zamudio and Juan Puntes in the historical new media exhibition 'TIME:CODE' in White Box Art Center, New York featuring many internationally famous contemporary artists including Ai Weiwei.
In the last few years, my works have been exhibited in multiple High End Art Fairs across the USA including Art Miami Context Art Fair during the Art Basel Week, LA Art Show, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art, Wynwood Art Expo New York, and Affordable Art Fair New York. I currently have Gallery Representations in a number of prestigious Contemporary Pop and Urban Art galleries in the USA, Europe, and Canada. My work is in private collections of numerous collectors across the USA, Europe, Canada, United Arab Emirates, and India, including celebrity collectors such as American entrepreneur Jesse Itzler and his wife Sarah Blakely. I have also been commissioned to create multiple large scale murals in Atlanta, USA including an entire historic building in Midtown Atlanta that is exclusively featured with multiple murals from my Icon Collection.
The central overarching pursuit of my practice is creating Utopian models as critical and meditative tools in a Pop Surrealism language, with influences ranging from Pop culture to Deep Ecology. My ICON Glamour collection explores the inherent romanticism in contemporary popular culture and mass media by reinterpreting iconic visual material in a creative remix through unique visual sampling. In parallel, my issue-based Pop Art, such as the 'Oasis of Dreams' project, delves into deep research on the plight of migrant workers in the Gulf Cities. This project introduces the fictional city 'Al Waha' as a meditation on the construction boom and its ramifications, using a dramatized spectacle of commodified labor as a critical tool to map the alienations of culture and individual lives in globalization.