Sutapa Biswas has exhibited her work as an artist internationally over the past twenty years. Past exhibitions include collaborations with: Yale Centre for British Art, and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, University Museum of Ethnography, Norway and the 1997 Havana Biennial, Cuba. She is currently working with INIVA on a forthcoming exhibition in 2003. She lives and works in London.

Biswas depicts a white man, past his prime, bathed in the light of an ordinary domestic window. Biswas' choice of subject reverses the traditional power relationship between artist and model. As Richard Dyer has commented, 'the ultimate position of power in a society that controls people in part through their visibility is that of invisibility, the watcher.' Consequently, the visual arts present the perspective of 'a white male character scrutinising, appraising and savouring black and/ or female characters', far more frequently than vice versa. Biswas portrays the figure as 'undressed' and vulnerable, passively waiting and available to our gaze.