Sanker Ganesh

Known for works that engages people to think beyond their comfort area and with the mix of ancient myths it may come to surprise that Sanker Ganesh actually began his career and still till today is an aspiring engineer. In a short period of time, he managed to crawl up the art scene and take part in exhibitions with some of the established gallery along side top artists. He first started to emerge in local art scene after being selected as one of the winner in Art Against AIDS professional category. Sanker do not have preferred media with which to create; rather he switches between mixed media, painting, photography and printmaking. His flexibility and unorthodox style has created him more opportunity in art scenes as well as made him as an interesting artist to watch for.

Born in 1980, Kuala Lumpur capital of Malaysia, graduated from Nagaoka University of Technology with a Bachelor Degree in Electrical & Electronic. Sanker started his career as junior engineer in an automotive manufacturer and slowly moved in to IT field and currently working as system engineer. His passion towards art has always pushed him to work extra hours in continuously producing artworks and with the guidance of leading Malaysia’s figurative artist Stephen Menon who is also a multiple international award winning print maker, Sanker Ganesh is actively participating in local art scenes. Sanker is currently working on his first solo exhibition which is planned somewhere around October 2020.