Tanmoy Samanta (b. 1973 West Bengal) received a BFA and MFA in Painting from Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan in 1996.  He is a recipient of  a Pollock Krasner Foundation Award (New York), a National Scholarship from the Government of India, and a residency at the Kanoria Centre for Arts in Ahmedabad.

Selected solo exhibitions include Anant Art Gallery in Kolkata (2008); The Anecdote & Its Shadow at Gallery Espace in New Delhi, and Real 2007 at Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi. Selected group exhibitions include Telling it like it is: The Indian Story at Cork Street Gallery in London; Configuration at Anant Art Gallery in Kolkata; Paper Flute at Gallery Espace in New Delhi; Monsoon Chapter at Travancore Palace in New Delhi; Palette Summer at Palette Art Gallery in New Delhi; Making History Our Own at AIFACS presented by SAHMAT in New Delhi; Obscure Object of Desire at OED Gallery in Kochi; Layered Trajectories, a duo show at Lemongrasshopper Gallery in Ahmedabad; a group show at CIMA in Kolkata; Gulf Art Fair in Dubai presented by Gallery Espace, New Delhi; Back To The Future at Gallery Espace in New Delhi; a public art project on federalism conceived by Rajeev Sethi in New Delhi; Art of Young Bengal at Akriti Art Gallery in Kolkata; Dialogue at Anant Art Gallery in New Delhi; Edge of the Century shows in New Delhi; Young Santiniketan Today at the Guild Art Gallery in Mumbai; Unayan at the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature in New Delhi; a group show at Herwitz Gallery Presented by Kanoria Centre for Arts in Ahmedabad.

Tanmoy Samanta lives and works in New Delhi.