Ranbir Kaleka was born in 1953, raised in the Punjabi city of Patiala and studied at the College of Art in Chandigarh (1970-75) and received a Masters Degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 1987. He has held solo exhibitions of his works at Bose Pacia in New York (2005 & 2007) and Art Today in New Delhi (1995). His works have been included in most of the museum shows of Indian contemporary art that have been mounted around the world in the past decade, including: "Chalo! India" at the Mori Museum in Tokyo (2008); "India Moderna" at the Institute of Modern Art in Valencia, Spain (2008); "New Narratives" at the Chicago Cultural Institute (2007); "Horn Please" at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (2007); "Edge of Desire" at the Asia Society in New York (2005); "iCon: India Contemporary" at the Venice Biennale (2005); and "body.city" at the House of World Cultures in Berlin (2003). In 2007 he was commissioned to create a permanent video installation for the new Spertus Museum in Chicago and in 2008 his work was included in the Sydney Biennale.