Jahangir Asgar Jani is a self–taught, Mumbai based artist. He works with sculpture, installation, watercolors and film. He is known for his life size sculpture in various media and his works are in important collections. He is concerned with the making of culture and the socio– political consequences of its propagation. His work has been critically written about by respected authors and cultural theorists in India. He has had 18 solo shows since 1990, and participated in several group exhibitions in India as well as abroad.

His short film Make Ups has been exhibited in festivals in India, Sweden (Uppsala), France (Lille), USA (New York, San Francisco, Connecticut) and other countries in Europe. His short film Urmi was awarded Best Indian Narrative Short in 2013 at the Kashish MIQ Film Festival in Mumbai. Since then it has been shown in various LGBT Film Festivals including Canada, UK and Korea. He received the prestigious Max Planck–TISS fellowship in 2012 for a film under the URBAN ASPIRATIONS IN GLOBAL CITIES collaboration. The National Gallery Of Modern Art, Bangalore, along with the Cinema Society Of Bangalore has screened his films in 2017.

Mapin India has brought out a monograph, Alternate Lyricism, on him. His works are published and written about in several books on contemporary Indian art like the KHOJ BOOK 2010, and Twentieth Century Indian Sculpture and Articulating Resistance, Art and Activism.
He was a visiting Lecturer at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris in 2003, and has been invited to National and International seminars, residencies and camps.

He has been conferred the Diversity Leadership Award by the World HRD Congress, USA in 2016 for his work in the field of gender and sexuality diversity through his art practice.