Born in 1982 in Karnataka, India, Mahesh Baliga received a BFA from C.A.V.A., Mysore University, Karnataka, India (2005), and a postgraduate diploma in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara, India (2007). He currently lives and works in Vadodara, India. Tracing Footprints on Fading Ground, a selection of five paintings by Baliga were part of the Bengal Biennale (2024).
The artist’s most recent solo exhibition Mahesh Baliga: Drawn to remember was presented by David Zwirner’s The Upper Room, London (2022). Baliga has also been included in various international group exhibitions, such as Lokame Tharavadu (The World Is One Family), Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kerala, India (2021); e stray, Baekgong Museum, Gangwon - do, SouthKorea (2017); and Len Den, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai (2015). Since 2009, the artist’s work has been the subject of five solo exhibitions at Project 88 in Mumbai, including It’s a Normal Day in 2020 and the online presentation As I Remember in 2021. Baliga’s work is held in the collections of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), Delhi, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore, India, and the Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Clarinda, Iowa. The artist has held teaching positions at the Surat School of Fine Arts, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, India; Navrachana University, Vadodara, India; and College of Art, New Delhi.