Ashoke Mullick was born in Calcutta in the year 1975. He is considered one of the leading painters from the Bengal school of Art. Ashoke Mullick combines a sense of satire with contemporary situations. His paintings mainly focus on the ordinary man and the contradictions he faces. His paintings show the dominance of green and blue colors to depict a large segment of urban India. His painting also portrays the contemporary age where people have lost the human touch and have become increasingly impersonal in their behavior. He has graduated with a first-class in fine arts in 1981. He was awarded a cultural scholarship from the Government of India under Bikash Bhattacharya.