Born in 1968 in Karnataka, finished his BFA Painting, College of Fine Arts, Bangalore in 1989 & MA (Fine Arts: Graphics), M.S.University, Baroda in 1992. In 1989-91 he won the National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resources and Development. Worked under the supervision of K.Laxma Goud. He has participated in several group shows: 1987-93 Annual Shows, Karnataka Lalit Kala Akademi; 1988-91 National Exhibitions, New Delhi; 1988-89 All-India Exhibitions, Karnataka, Chitra Kala Parishath, Bangalore; 1988 AIFACS Exhibition, New Delhi; 1989-90 Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore; 1990 All-India Drawing and Graphics Exhibition, Gulbarga; 1993 Prints Today, Bangalore Alliance Francaise, Bangalore Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay; 1994 Vithi, Baroda, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay. He lives and works in Bangalore.

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Babu Eshwar Prasad’s paintings explore the remembered landscape recreated through the mind’s eye. It is a vision of nature looked at with a naïve sense of wonder, a landscape that is mystical and surreal in conception. His mind creates and reforms nature, reconstructing it into new harmonies. His imagery explores a psychic map, which he navigates with the amazement of a child, into a world of chimeras, sacred mountains, speaking trees and unknown waters. This kaleidoscope of organic possibilities of nature and architecture blends labyrinths and deserts, heaven and earth in vast solitude’s beyond time, unfolding hallucinatory space.