Mohan Samant was born in 1926 in Bombay. He studied at the J. J. School of Art, Bombay, under the guidance of the artist, Palsikar. He is a considerable musician and plays Indian classical music on the Sarangi. In 1957 he was awarded a two-year scholarship to Rome; he went to the U.S.A. in 1959 on the Rockefeller Fellowship and lectured there in various universities. He lived in New York for four years, came back to Bombay, but returned to New York in 1968 and became a permanent resident of the U.S.A. He has had one-man shows in the major cities of India, and in New York. In addition to participating in the Biennales in Venice, Tokyo and Sao Paulo, and the Triennales in India, his work has been shown in numerous group shows which includes an exhibition, Hundred Best Painters of the World, at the Tate Gallery, London in 1963, and Indian Painting Now, organized by the Arts Council in England in 1965. His work has been written about and reproduced in Time magazine, Art News, and in Art of India and Art of the World Series by Norman Brown. He lives in New York.