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He spent all of his college years in Santiniketan, first completing his BFA in 1987, and then his MFA in 1989 from the Rabindra Bharati University. In Mukherjee's work, we see the Bengal School strong figurative tradition being carried ahead and interpreted in a very contemporary idiom. It's not surprising that every figure in his body of works has a separate and interesting story to tell. Most of the people Mukherjee paints are performers of some type, putting on an act for everyone else - something all of us do everyday of our lives. Mukherjee's figures are dressed in the bright, almost gaudy orange, red and green costumes that street performers wear, but their eyes are gazing and drawn, their faces almost cartoon like and their fingers podgy, making the irony and pathos that surrounds them extremely evident. Mukherjee's favourite medium is reverse oil or acrylic painting on transparent acrylic sheets, and he swears that although he may change his themes and subjects, inventing new ones for new shows, he will never give up painting in this medium

• 1989 Master of Fine Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
• 1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

• 2009-10 Galleria, New Delhi
• 2006 Art ‘N’ Soul, New Delhi

• 2012 ”Visions,Art Zest,Dubai.
• 2011 ”Reflections,Ilumination,Art Zest,Dubai.
• 2008 ‘The Human Psyche’, Galleria, New Delhi
• 2008 ‘Art from Bengal’, Art Elements Gallery, New Delhi
• 2001 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai, Kolkata
• 2001 2000, 1999, 1997 Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 2001 2000 Galleria, Mumbai
• 2000 1999, 96 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
• 2000 1999, 1998 Vinyasa Art Gallery, Chennai
• 1999 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
• 1999 Pegasus Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1999 97 Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
• 1999 Art Today, New Delhi
• 1998 Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1997 Arpana Caur's Art Gallery, New Delhi
• 1995 Variety at Gallery La Mere, Kolkata
• 1992 Tata Centre, Kolkata
• 1992 95 Rashtriya Lalit Kala Kendra, Kolkata
• 1991 90 ‘Encounter’, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
• 1991 ‘Introduction’, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
• 1991 ‘New Generation’, The Centre Art Gallery, Kolkata
• 1985-90 Academy Mid Summer Exhibition; West Bengal State Arts Exhibition

• 1997 Art Access Week, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
• 1994 Friendship'94, Birla Academy of Arts and Culture, Kolkata
• 1992 Friendship'92, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
• 1985-98 Annual Exhibition, Birla Academy of Arts and Culture
• 1985-90 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
• 1985-90 Annual Exhibition, Indian Society of Oriental Arts, Kolkata
• 1996 Monsoon Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai