Prasanta Sahu (b. 1968) began his professional training with a Diploma in Electrical Engineering (1987) before pursuing formal art education at Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1998 and subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, in 2000.
Sahu’s artistic practice has been presented through several significant solo exhibitions, including The Geometry of Ordinary Lives, Emami Art, Kolkata (2025); Anatomy of a Vegetable: Ruminations on Fragile Ecosystems, shown as part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022–23 Invited Satellite Exhibition at Mocha Art Café, Kochi; Suburban Shadows, Emami Art, Kolkata (2020); and Blueprint of a City, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad (2016).
He has exhibited extensively in India and internationally. Selected group exhibitions include Obsessions, Possessions, 5th Coventry Biennial, Coventry, Warwickshire, England (2025–26); No Words, Egg Gallery, South Korea (2025 – 26); Material as Metaphors: A Dialogue of Art Forms, National Gallery of Modern Art, Kolkata (2025); Dialogues Across Time: Indian Contemporary and Folk Art, Indian Museum in collaboration with the Basu Foundation (2025); All That Is Hidden: Mapping Departures in Landscape, Terrains and Geographies, Emami Art, Kolkata (2024); The Politics of Paper, Emami Art, Kolkata (2022); Disruptive Confluences, Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Torino (2021); Multitudes and Assemblages, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino (2021); and Constellations, Bihar Museum, Patna (2018), among others.
Sahu’s work has also been presented at major national and international art fairs, including India Art Fair, New Delhi (2022, 2023, 2025, 2026); Art Mumbai, Mumbai (2024, 2025); Hub India—Maximum Minimum at Artissima International Art Fair of Contemporary Art, Torino (2021); Blue India at Art Asia Art Fair, Korea (2018); Postcards at Busan International Art Fair, Korea (2017); and the International Art Fair, Rome (2007). In addition, he has participated in several national and international art camps and workshops across several countries, including Armenia, Thailand, Russia, the United States, and Switzerland.
Alongside his artistic practice, Sahu has maintained an active engagement with art pedagogy. He has been invited as visiting faculty and for lecture-demonstrations at institutions including the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Burapha University, Thailand; the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; and the Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad.
Since 2001, Sahu has been teaching in the Department of Painting at Kala Bhavana (Faculty of Fine Art), Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
Prasanta Sahu lives and works in Santiniketan, India.
