Tapan Kumar Dash completed his BFA from B.K. College of Art & Crafts, Bhubaneshwar, in 1995.

He tries to set up a dialogue between the images and their private associations in his paintings. His works explore a contrast between two kinds of private pursuit that the cosmic and biological He draw his paintings above an exercise in mere technical and skilful competency. Though there is disparity in his choice of subjects, his paintings can visually be grouped together, as they naturally bond by a similarity in theme, concept, execution and attitude. His figures speak directly and forcefully, and keep the viewers absorbed. His dialect is local, but its interpretative language makes it valid in a global multilingualism. He discovers his own self in the multiplication of images, and give it a metaphorical sensibility.

He has many solo shows to his credit, and his work is in many private collections in India and abroad.