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.

The artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK, 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 (TheWorld Is One Family), Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kerala, India (2021); e stray, Baekgong Museum, Gangwon-do, South Korea(2017); and Len Den, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai (2015). Since 2009, the artist’s work has been the subject of six solo exhibitions at Project 88 in Mumbai, including A Butterfly in Amazon in 2023 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.