Sujata Gopalan has been a Professor of printmaking, drawing, and graphic design at Southeastern Louisiana University, Louisiana State University, Eastern Illinois University and John Herron, and was Owner/Director of Gopalan Contemporary Art in Terre Haute, Indiana. Her work is represented in many public and private collections, including The Library of Congress, the Bernard J Zuckerman Museum of Art, Inova Cancer Research Center, the Louisiana State Museum, the Louisiana Division of the Arts collection, Dixie Produce International, the Landsbaum Center for Medical Education and the Rose-Hulman permanent collection. Born in Ahmedabad, India, Gopalan attended Boston University and then studied printmaking under the guidance of Rudy Pozzati, Marvin Lowe and Wendy Calman at Indiana University. She completed her MFA at Louisiana State University. She has always had interests and careers in both Art and Science.

In her other career as a scientist, Gopalan has an MS in Immunology and Microbiology from ISU and was Senior Research Associate at IU School of Medicine in the Department of Regenerative Biology and Course Director for the Problem-based Learning Curriculum in Medical Biochemistry also at Indiana University School of Medicine. She then went on to become the founding Chair of Biotechnology at Ivy Tech Community College. A life-long academic, Gopalan holds a PhD in Educational Leadership.