Dakoji graduated from the College of Fine Arts and Architecture in Hyderabad and studied printmaking at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. There he interacted with printmaker Jyoti Bhatt (also represented in this exhibition). In 1996, Dakoji founded Atelier 2221 Print and Edition Studio in Shahpur Jat, an art and fashion district in Delhi, with his wife Pratibha. He has also been the lead printer and educator at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in New York since the mid-1990s.