Shekhar was born 20th August, 1974 in West Bengal. He gained a scholarship to undertake his university education at the Kala Bhawana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. He proceeded to achieve a 1st class at Bachelors and Masters level in Painting 2003 and 2005 respectively, He has exhibited in numerous group shows in India , with a solo show to his credit in 2008. His work relates to an exploration of the inner word of youth. He sees this as a world of "dreams and nightmares, of love and longing, of hopes and despair, of intense pleasure and insufferable pain.” The world he uncovers is highly personal and ephemeral. At the same time he connects the protagonists' experience with universal themes and the eternal facets of human nature. He chooses watercolours as his medium, which for him conveys fluidity and resilience inherent in the inner world of youth. He also uses symbols extensively in his work which are largely drawn from the contemporary urban world allowing the viewer to experience the familiar and easy to relate. The ephemeral world of dreams melds with the familiar material world connecting through the liquid contours of colour.

He lives and works in Santiniketan.