Born in Kolkata, India, Sangram Majumdar has an MFA from Indiana University and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His recent solo exhibition “Foreign and Domestic” opened at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, TX. Other recent solo exhibitions include the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in NY. In 2016-17, his work was part of a travelling exhibition at Drew University, NJ, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, TN and University of Vermont.

Recent selected group exhibition venues include Freight & Volume, NY; Geary Contemporary, NY; James Cohan Gallery, NY and Gallery Zürcher, NY. Awards include a Purchase Award from the 2010 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, a MacDowell Fellowship, a residency at Yaddo, the 2009-10 Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Space Program Grant, a MICA Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, and two Maryland State Art Council Individual Grants in Painting.

This past summer he was a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center and the Chautauqua School of Art. He has lectured on his work at Columbia University, CCA, Cranbrook School of Art, PAFA, the New York Studio School among others. Sangram lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is a Professor of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Brian met up with him in his Brooklyn studio to discuss his childhood, his family, making paintings, teaching, music and much more.