Born in 1967 in Berhampore, a small town near Kolkata, India, Banerjee
was introduced to art by his grand uncle Bimal Mookherjee when he was
thirteen years old. After having a successful career in the science,
Banerjee returned to art through the medium of photography. Banerjee's
ongoing photography project in the Arctic is an exploration of our
relationship to nature, what the artist calls, "land-as-home". His
photographs have been exhibited in more than thirty museums and
galleries in the United States and Europe, including, Milwaukee Art
Museum, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Grand Rapids Art
Museum, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and Palais Des Beaux-Arts
in Brussels. He received a Greenleaf Artist Award from the United
Nations Environment Programme and a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from
Lannan Foundation. Banerjee will be Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth
College in 2009.
"By weaving the land and its inhabitants into a carefully constructed
composition, Banerjee reinforces the delicate interconnectedness of
life in a rapidly warming polar environment, reminding us that the
Arctic supports a varied and complicated ecosystem".
Dr. Lisa Hostetler, Associate Curator of Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum