In over 30 solo shows in India, his works have been displayed in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Pondicherry, Bangalore and Calcutta.

In the recent years, his works have also been shown in several curated Group Shows such as Tao of Shiva curated by Kalpana Shah & Vimla Patil, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, March 2004, Indian Art Unleashed curated by Nitin and Anjali Bhalla for Nitanjali Art Gallery, London, June 2004, Art For Vision curated by Sushma Behl at Gallerie Nvya, October 2004, Sacred Space curated by Anupa Mehta at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, October 2004, ‘Chivas Art Alive’ curated by Poonam Sarin, New Delhi, December 2004, Bombay, December 2004 and Bangalore, January 2005, Ardhanareshwara, curated by Dr. Alka Pande at Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, March 2005, Rattnottama DasGupta, Rangroop – The Many Faces of Colour at the Visual Arts Gallery, April 2005, Indian Art Unleashed, Dubai curated by Elizabeth Rogers, September 2005.

Abroad, his works have been displayed in solo shows at: Galerie Espace Pont-Neuf in Paris, The Wraxall Gallery and the Nehru Centre in London, The Ufundi Gallery in Ottawa, The Viridian Gallery and Bose-Pacia Modern in New York, Atlantic Gallery in Washington D.C., The East & West Art Gallery in Melbourne and Galeria El Sol in Spain.

His works are in important private collections and museums including the National Gallery of Modern Art, and a 260 ft. long mural at the international airport at New Delhi.

The Sanskriti award was presented to him in 1981. He was invited to deliver a lecture on his works by the National gallery of Victoria, Australia.

Inspired by Zen, his book of haiku poems “The Broken Wave” was published in 1985. His poems have been translated and published in prestigious magazines and in Spanish. In 1986, he published a portfolio of charcoal drawings, ‘Vibrations’, based on hymns from the Rig-Veda.

‘La Lluna Fugissera’, a book of his haiku poems was translated into Catalan and was published by Bromera Poesia in 2001.

A book on his works “The Eyes of the Thar” published by Mapin publications was released in Delhi, Mumbai and London in 2000.

In 1990 he designed the stage for a concert by Pandit Ravi Shankar at Siri Fort auditorium, New Delhi, with nine suspended canvases of the moon and clouds.

He calligraphed his poems on large scrolls at the International poetry Festivals in Spain “La costa Poetica” in Altea, 1995 and at “Ardentissima” in Murcia, 1996. In 1997, Satish Gupta exhibited his Zen sculptures at Art Today in New Delhi.

In 1998, he created a group of five metal sculptures ranging in height from about 10 feet to 33 feet and weighing over 10 tons. They were inspired by the Five Primal Elements and are displayed permanently at the Jindal Centre in New Delhi.

He has been painting the Thar desert over the last ten years and has traveled extensively in Western Rajasthan and Kutch. He has had several exhibitions of his desert paintings in Delhi, Mumbai, New York, London and Dubai.

‘Transformation’, a series inspired by his encounters with Zen was exhibited in Delhi and Mumbai in 2003. These works were based on the forces of physical and spiritual, portraying cosmic consciousness.

Satish created an installation with a 9 feet high sculpture of Buddha in copper for the show ‘The Sacred Space’ organized by RPG which was displayed at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai in 2004.

Satish Gupta has also participated in art camps at The Oberoi, Mumbai, June 1998, Taj Bengal, Kolkata, Febraury 2001, JW Mariott, Mumbai, September 2004, Harsh Goenka’s art camp at Marvel, Mumbai, January 2005, Istanbul ,Turkey organised by Popular Prakashan July 2005 to and Sitaaray Art Camp, London , 2006, to name a few.

‘I am the dewdrop, I am the ocean’, his book of Zen stories, haikus and reflections was published in 2005.

Satish Gupta has given several lectures at various places. Some of the recent ones are The Rotary Club at Amritsar and Sankriti workshop in New Delhi , and a recent presentation and lecture by Drshti, at India Habitat Centre, Delhi.

He did a limited edition book for an auction for Asiatic Society, Mumbai, January 2004.

One of Satish’s works was gifted for an auction organized by GiveIndia in aid of Tsunami victims curated by Anupa Mehta at Mumbai in the year 2005.

He had a show of his paintings and sculptures “A Floating World” at Tamarai Art Space in London recently in October”06 and also participated in an auction for WWF .

His two works were auctioned at the ‘Khushii Auction’, recently in Nov. 06 in Delhi.

He did an installation for ‘Digressing Domains’, a mega show curated by Sushma Bahl for Nitanjali Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra Bhawan, Delhi – 2006

‘Buddha’s awakening’, a large Suspended Installation, composed of 18 works on canvas was displayed in Mumbai-2006. curated by Anupa Mehta .

His upcoming show Cosmic Matrix – II, is on from Jan.28th, 2007 for public viewing at Jahangir Bombay, sponsored by Gallery Art & Soul.

He is recently working on a Book on Shiva called “ Centering Awareness” which would be released in Kolkata, in February-2007 along with an exhibition.

Born in 1947 in New Delhi, Satish Gupta studied art for five years at the College of Art, New Delhi. He moved to Paris on a scholarship to study graphics and stayed there for two formative years, 1970-72. At present, he lives in New Delhi and works from his studio Zazen, in Gurgaon. He writes a regular column “Zen Black, Zen White” for the First City magazine, published from Delhi.