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Sandeep Mukherjee is presently Professor of Art at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He received a B.F.A. from Otis College of Art and Design (Los Angeles) and an M.F.A. from UCLA and, prior to that, a Master of Sciences in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Sciences in Industrial Engineering from India.

Much of Sandeep's art is fueled by his curiosity about in-between spaces - when something is no longer what it was, but hasn't quite yet become something else. His work explores the territory of collapsed tangibility and structure, when meaning and corporality become destabilized, allowing new understanding and perception to emerge. When discussing his current work, which incorporates painting and embossed drawing on Duralene, Sandeep said he was inspired by the idea of a landscape folding in upon itself, where the valleys, the mountains, and the horizon give way to abstraction, but the topography still manages to come through to the viewer. This mutability is enhanced by the film-like quality of Duralane, which creates a range of variation in the material - translucency, opacity, and dimensionality simultaneously exist within the striated colors and black spaces. Sandeep's work reveals the nature of materials and the impression of the hand and body, as much as it emphasizes the amorphous quality of space and experience.

He has had solo exhibitions at Sister and Cottage Home (Los Angeles), at the Margo Leavin Gallery (Los Angeles), at Brennan and Griffin (New York), at Nature Morte Gallery (New Delhi) and the Pomona College Museum of Art (Claremont, CA). Group exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary (Los Angeles), the UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco).

His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) among others. Mukherjee is represented by Brennan and Griffin, New York and Project 88, Mumbai.

He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Dr. Rajiv Datar, CEO of DNX, wishes to sincerely thank Sandeep for allowing the use of some his creative work on the DNX website to represent the confluence of science, technology, engineering and art, in improving the lives of patients.

Sandeep's works can be viewed at www.sandeepmukherjeeart.com