Mousumi Biswas was born in Kolkata in 1978. She completed her Bachelor of Visual Art (painting) from the Govt. College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, (2003) and Masters in Fine Arts (painting) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharti, Santiniketan (2005). She has participated in several exhibitions. She has also received the Kolkata Art Foundation Award, (2005), ‘Rathin Maitra Award’ from OVT College of Art and Craft, (2003) and the ‘certificate of merit’ from the Govt. College of Art and Craft, (2002). Her works can be found with leading art collectors in India and abroad. The artist lives and works in Noida, U.P. An especially eye-catching piece is Mousumi Biswas’s painting of the green-eyed Afghan girl, Sharbat Gula, made famous on the cover of the National Geographic magazine.