Pilloo Pochkhanawala was born in 1923 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.

In 2020, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1955), offered in the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 29 September 2020 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹77,78,075.76 ($105,319.63). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

Today pollution is a major hazard in industrialized society and ecologists are seriously concerned at the ruthless rate at which man is destroying his environment. In India this pollution is in the form of ugliness and a sterility towards beauty, which is changing the pattern of life. Throughout the centuries, art has been closely integrated into the pattern of Indian life. Art is not an embellishment, it is a way of life. Routine is a deadening thing and an urge to respond to creative activity is a very strong one and if suppressed over a long period must lead to psychological imbalance. Man is born with two strong urges, survival and procreation and art stems from the urge to create. When I say art, I do not mean entertainment or escapism, I mean that object, or activity which stirs, stimulates, disturbs or refreshes the emotion of man. I do not think that there is any humanbeing who is so self-contained that he can live, in harmony, without the stimulus of Art.

In 2021, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Atomic Couple (1974), offered in the Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 26 October 2021 at London, achieving a sale price of ₹2,86,72,653.24 ($381,708.11). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

In 2019, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Assassination (1981), offered in the Evening Sale by Saffronart, which concluded on 12 September 2019 at New Delhi, achieving a sale price of ₹50,40,000 ($70,986). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.

I have almost a pagan worship for the elements. This may probably be an unconscious surrender to our Zoroastrian religion where the dominant factor in our Temple has been the Fire, which has held me fascinated from childhood. Many years later this has terminated in my metal sculptures, ‘Sun-Blast’, ‘Flame’ and others...Texture can evoke every subtle nuance of human emotions and I have used it lavishly in my Metal-Scapes. All the scars, scratches and corroded surfaces on my aluminium sculpture act as my personal signature.

In 1984, Pilloo Pochkhanawala A Retrospective 1952 -1984 marked a major milestone in the exhibition history of Pilloo Pochkhanawala, offering a retrospective survey of the artist's artistic production