Mortimer Chatterjee received his MA in the History of Indian Art and Architecture from SOAS and co-founded Chatterjee & Lal with his wife, Tara Lal, in 2003. Today, based in Mumbai’s Colaba art district, the gallery is focused on contemporary artists as well as historical material related to both fine art and design. Chatterjee has also been responsible for maintaining major private and corporate art collections. In 2010, he co-authored a publication on the art collection of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), along with curating an exhibition of that collection at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.