Born in Khagoul in Bihar, Subodh Gupta carries a history of himself as a theatre set designer traveling with a Hindi theatre group. His works of art are evidences to his involvement with the public/popular spaces both as a viewer and the viewed. Where the making of the art involves a concoction of multiple mediums, sculpture, painting, installation, photography, video and performance works.
The sensibility involved in establishing relationships between objects, space, time and culture may place Subodh Gupta as a conceptual-totalitarian artist. The clue lies within the ways of seeing; where the artist almost magically changes the viewers visual perception and cultural notions about art, mundane objects, and time and space.
His recent works are loaded with overtones of  Indianness where elements like cow dung cakes, stainless steel kitchen utensils, scooter, fancy electric bulbs and bicycles capture fleeting moments of  memory which are burdened with homogenized  concepts about the Indian. These works of Subodh Gupta very clearly raise questions about the politics of cultural domination and commodification that persists in the contemporary art scene.
Some of his noted solo exhibitions are Go home Every Single Day, Showroom Gallery, London (2004), New Paintings and Sculptures, Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi (2003), among others.