Kailash Chandra Meher

Kailash Chandra Meher is an Indian artist, inventor, social activist. He is a painter of contemporary modern art paintings and traditional Tussar Pattachitra paintings of Odisha. He was a recipient of the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013.

Meher was born in an artist family in Sonepur town of Odisha state. He studied at VisvaBharati University, Santiniketan and received a Diploma in Fine Arts from the VisvaBharati University, Shantiniketan in West Bengal. He was trained in the art of Pattachitra painting initially by his father and subsequently under guidance of Bhagwat Maharana.

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