Romen Banerjee was born in 1963 in West Berlin. From 1984 to 1990 he studied physics and graduated in art studies at the University of Arts in West Berlin, under Wolfgang Petrick. Banerjee co-founded the Ateliergemeinschaft Tempelhofer Ufer, a studio cooperative, in 1988. In the same year he received the Art Prize of IG Metall. From 1992 to 1993 he was a lecturer at the University of Arts. He is involved in projects such as the Prozessgalerie (2009), an organisation and debate platform. Banerjee lives and works in Berlin.