Maksud was born in Bankura, West Bengal, India. He completed his BFA and MFA from Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, in 2019 with a semester at the Royal Academy of Art, Netherlands, in 2016.

His practice includes facilitating experiential understanding of organisms in a durational, built microcosm, using sculpture, painting, installation, and photography including temperature, humidity, moisture, dampness, and light. He is interested in generating reflections on how we understand ourselves in relation to each other, including other species, organisms, and civilizations as well as our place in the transforming environment. His work deals with microbial contamination as a conversational expression, based on the observation of growth, transformations, and decomposition of organic matter by bacteria, fungi, plants, microbial creatures, fermentation, decomposition, oxidation, and rotting, as well as with the organic, man-made, found objects and everyday, discarded materials.

 

 He recently received an award from the Micropia, Science Museum, Amsterdam, 2024 and an international award from the Kochi-Muziris Students' Biennale in 2019, the INLAKS Fine Art Award in 2021, FICA Emerging Artist Award 2020, and the National Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, India, in 2018. Maksud also participated in an international residency in Sicily, Italy in 2018. His work has been showcased at the Micropia Science Museum, Amsterdam 2024; Critical Zones, in search of a common ground, Indian Museum, Kolkata in collaboration with Goethe Institut and ZKM Karlsruhe 2023; also as part of Five Million Incidents, a year-long series of projects organized by the Goethe Institut, Delhi and Kolkata, and curated by Raqs Media Collective, in 2020.; the Serendipity Art Festival 2019, in collaboration with the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art; and Artissima Art Fair, Italy 2021.

Maksud is currently resident at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands