Sajal Sarkar is an artist of the Indian diaspora who explored most of the conventional mediums like drawing and painting, printmaking, and sculpture. He completed his BFA in Drawing and Painting in Govt. College of Art and Craft, The University of Calcutta in 1989, and then studied Printmaking at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India. In 1993-95. He has won several grants and awards including the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in 2024, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant in 2021, Senior Research Fellowship from the Cultural Ministry of India in 2011-12. The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Canada in 1996 and 2005. Sajal has shown his work in numerous solo shows and group shows in various parts of the world.
In 2016 he migrated to the USA and continued his art practice exploring various natural mediums in his work. Sajal presented several artist talks, including at the University of Connecticut (UConn), CT, the World University of Design, Haryana, India, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, and East Connecticut State University. His interview was published in Art Review City, New York, and Art Soul Life magazine in India, an article was published in Art India Magazine His works are in collection with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, Library of Congress, DC, National Gallery of Modern Art, and Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, along with several private collections internationally.
Sajal presently lives and works in NJ.