Prasanta Sahu, born in 1968 in Odisha, India, completed his diploma in Electrical Engineering
(1987) before enrolling to study art at Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.
There, he earned his BFA in painting (1998), followed by a Master’s degree in painting from
M.S. University, Baroda (2000).
Sahu’s solo shows include The Geometry of Ordinary Lives; Emami Art, Kolkata, 2025; Anatomy of a Vegetable: Ruminations on Fragile Ecosystems as part of the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022-23 Invited Satellite Programme at Mocha Art Café, Kochi; Suburban Shadows, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2020, and Blueprint of a City, Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad, 2016.
Sahu has shown widely both within and outside the country and participated in numerous workshops and residencies. Some select participations are The Winds of Springtime Brings Back the Sighs from the Past, GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow, Russia (13 November 2025 – 3 May 2026); Obsessions, Possessions, 5th edition of Coventry Biennial, Coventry, Warwickshire, England (3 October 2025 – 25 January 2026); Material as Metaphors: A Dialogue of Art Forms, National Gallery of Modern Art, Kolkata, 2025; All That is Hidden: Mapping Departures in Landscape, Terrains and Geographies, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2024; The Politics of Paper, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2022; Hub India-Maximum Minimum, Artissima International Art Fair of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy, 2021; Disruptive Confluences at Palazzo Madama, Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, Torino and Multitudes and Assemblages at Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, a three-part museum show jointly curated by Davide Quadrio and Myna Mukherjee, 2021; Lockdown Diaries, CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2020; Art: Bengal Now curated by Pranab Ranjan Ray, jointly organised by Gandhara art Gallery, Kolkata and Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2020; Anthology of Anecdotes, Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2019; Kursi, Sarjan Art Gallery, Baroda, 2019; Blue India Art Asia Art Fair Korea, 2018; Constellations, Bihar Museum, Patna, 2018; and Postcards, Busan International art Fair, Korea, 2017; among many others.
Sahu has been invited as visiting faculty by several universities, including the Faculty of
Fine and Applied Arts, Burapha University, Thailand; University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and the University of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu School of Fine Arts and Communication, Hyderabad.
Since 2001, Sahu has been teaching in the Department of Painting at his alma mater, Kala
Bhavana (Faculty of Fine Art), Visva Bharati University.
Prasanta Sahu lives and works in Santiniketan, India.
