Ganesh Haloi is a Kolkata based visual artist. He was born in 1936 in Jamalpur village in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh).

He spent much of his childhood in Jamalpur. His family came to Calcutta, India in 1950 after the partition of India in 1947.

Ganesh Haloi's is an abstract artist with a forte in pure landscape, which later transitioned into innerscapes.

Haloi's works and his motifs have precise associations with the artist's psyche, his experiences and the upheavals that have shaped him and his point of view. "Everything begins in pain," says Haloi. 

Ganesh Haloi maintains high standards craftsmanship and his construction of trees, houses and the ambience of Kolkata that seems murky with a suppressed strength. Some of his unforgettable work includes nature-scapes painted on rice paper.

Ganesh Haloi is also a curator and author. He received the Manojmohan Basu Smarak Samman for his autobiography “Amar Katha”.

Among others, his works have also been exhibited at Form and Play (Kolkata and New York); Documenta 14 (Athens 2016, Kassel 2017); Poetics of Abstraction (Kolkata January 2018); Art: Bengal Now (Delhi January 2020); Sense and Sensation: Paintings in Ink and Brush at Akar Prakar. Curatorial Advisor: Debashish Banerji (2021); and The Architectonics of Form: Scrolls by Ganesh Haloi. Curated by Jesal Thacker at Akar Prakar, Kolkata, 2022.