Indrapramit Roy studied printmaking (BFA) at the Visva-Bharati University of Santiniketan (1982-87) and painting (MFA, 1987-89) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University of Baroda, India. Subsequently he was awarded Inlaks Scholarship to study MA Painting (1990-92) at the Royal College of Art, London, which included a term at Cite des Arts, Paris. He also spent a term at the Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin on an Erasmus Exchange Scholarship.

From amongst the 16 solo shows held so far the last few were in The Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2006 and 2009, Aicon gallery – Palo Alto, CA in May 2007, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai in February 2008 and Galerie-88, Kolkata in November-December 2012 and 2015. ‘Mezzaterra’, his latest solo show opened at Threshold gallery in New Delhi in March 2016.
He has taken part in Group shows in London, Berlin, New York, Melbourne and Yangon and has represented India in Asian Art Exhibition in Macao and the Cairo Biennale, Cairo. In February 2013 He has shown in Aicon Gallery, New York in a show titled Map Makers-II.