Sarnath Banerjee
Sarnath Banerjee, born in Calcutta in 1972, lives and works in New Delhi and Berlin. He is an Indian graphic novelist, artist and film-maker. After graduating in biochemistry, he received an MA in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College in London. Sarnath Banerjee runs a publishing house, Phantomville, which publishes exclusively graphic novels and has been awarded the 2008 Best Young Publisher Award by the British Council.
His work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, biennials and festivals. His films have received awards at the Digital Film Festival, Delhi and the Mocha Film Festival, Bombay. In 2012 he was commissioned by the London Olympics to do a public art project entitled The gallery of losers, which involved 48 billboards, newspaper strips, and animated walls.
Exhibitions
2012 Gallery of losers, Frieze Projects East, London. 2011 Crossroads: India escalate, Prague Biennale. Indian Highway 5, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Art, Rome. FIAC – International contemporary art fair, Project 88, Paris. 2009 Frieze Art Fair, Project 88, London. 2008 Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. São Paulo Bienal. 2007 Complex systems, Karton Gallery, Budapest. Horn please, Kunstmuseum, Bern. 2006 Subcontingent. The Indian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT).
Graphic novels
Harappa Files, Harper Collins India and Project 88, 2011.
The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers, Penguin Books India, 2007; French edition: Calcutta, translated by Claro, Éditions Denoël, Paris 2007.
Corridor, Penguin Books India, 2004; Vertige Graphic, Paris 2006.