Sarnath Banerjee is the author of the graphic novels Corridor, The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers, The Harappa Files, All Quiet in Vikaspuri and Doab Dil. He created Gallery of Losers, a series of billboards for the 2012 London Olympics. His installation, Critical Imagination Deficit, was showcased at the 13th Berlin Biennale 2025. His recent solo exhibitions include The Melancolony of a Heartburn City for the Gujral Foundation, and The Spectral Times, which was shown at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.

He has been a Belknap fellow at Princeton University, a CAST fellow at MIT, Cambridge, a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Banerjee also co-founded the award-winning publishing house Phantomville. He is currently working with Rohan Debroy on an illustrated book about mosquitoes and how they challenged the British Empire.