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. He was born on 22 January 1954 in Sonepur, Odisha. He was studied in Visva-Bharati University from Santiniketan. He was getting Diploma in Fine Arts in this college. He was firstly get trained for Pattachitra painting from his father. Mostly while he was study for Diploma he was create many amazing paintings. He was started her career in the 1978 by working in Weavers Service Centre in Bhubaneswar for creating textile designs. He was also experimenting in new designs and also he was applied many new techniques for painting. Meher creates new designs, techniques with research and experiments, aiming for better market promotion in India and abroad. His tree paintings were presented as an example for the Shilp?Guru award. Because of his excellent work in paintings, many more students and followers got National Award and also thousands of artisan families survive their livelihood by following his innovative creative designs & paintings for their bread & butter.