Niladri Sarker is a maverick drifter — a self-described “not quite your run-of-the-mill Homo sapiens” — who has dabbled in many things, stumbled through quite a few, and hopes he has nailed at least some.
A Multidisciplinary Life of Thought & Creation
ART SHOW INTERNATIONAL GALLERY, founded by Dr. Sarker during the height of the pandemic, was created as an online platform to support a global art community disrupted by gallery closures, canceled exhibitions, and declining sales opportunities. Today, rebranded as TERAVARNA, the organization has grown into an international contemporary art gallery representing artists from 129 countries through online exhibitions, physical shows, and art fairs in cities including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, London, and Paris.
Dr. Sarker holds a Ph.D. in chemistry and teaches as a college professor. He lives outside Los Angeles, California, with his wife and three daughters. Over the years, his family has shared their home with dogs, cats, rabbits, tortoises, snakes, tarantulas, cockroaches, hedgehogs, lizards, uromastyx, and geckos.
In his increasingly rare spare time, he enjoys painting, writing, filmmaking, and traveling the world with cameras in tow.
Trained as a scientist, Dr. Sarker has worked on space-related research in collaboration with NASA/JPL, with early work focused on biosignature detection and the atmospheric chemistry of Saturn’s giant moon Titan in connection with the Cassini-Huygens mission.
Over the last fifteen years, his wanderlust has taken him to some of the planet’s most remote and remarkable places. Through travel and photography, he seeks to draw attention to environmental change, endangered wildlife, fragile ecosystems, and the cultural diversity of communities around the world.
He has so far traveled to 106 countries, with the long-term goal of visiting all 196 commonly recognized countries and all seven continents.
Projects
Niladri Sarker’s work spans film, literature, art, photography, travel, scientific research, and teaching. Across these fields, his projects are shaped by close observation, curiosity, and a desire to explore how human beings understand the world around them. Together, they form a growing body of visual, intellectual, and creative work connected by inquiry, memory, place, and imagination.
