Born in Goa. He graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Mumbai, in 1988, and post graduated in Painting from M. S. University of Baroda in 1990. In 1998 on invitation he completed a Residency at AR.CO, in Lisbon, Portugal.

He has lectured in history of art, drawing and painting at the Goa College of Art.

Mesquita is the recipient of awards and honors in the form of scholarships, fellowships, artist in residencies, and invitational participation in national and international shows.

He has participated in various exhibitions in India from 1988 onwards on invitation which include the 3rd and 6th Bharath Bhavan Biennial of Contemporary Indian Art, Bhopal, 7th Triennale Lalit Kala Akademi, ‘Memos for the New Millennium From Artist of a Moulting World’ at Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai. ‘The Bodied Self’, at Sans Tache Gallery, Mumbai and “Strangeness” Anant Art Gallery, Kolkata. The Sacred’, Galleria, New Delhi. He has represented India in many international art exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Egypt, Finland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, China and the USA.

Théodore Mariano Mesquita is one of the first significant exponent from India, to explore and manifest his vision through the form of New Media Art, from the early nineties onwards.

Mesquita’s works reverberates with the potency to elicit notions of identity that have been constructed through specific representations of signs, symbols and the body in art. He is strongly rooted in the finest humanist tradition of the proper study, rarely visited by artists of this time.

Amongst the various prizes awarded he is the recipient of the National Fellowship, Government of India in 1993 and the Excellence Award: Emerging Artist of India, Harmony Show 2000, in Mumbai.

Mesquita lives and works in Goa, India.

He heads the Vice~Versa Foundation.