Babu Eshwar Prasad was born in 1968 in Karnataka. He finished his Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts in painting at the College of Fine Arts, Bangalore in 1989 and received his Master's degree in printmaking from the Fine Arts Faculty of the MS University, Baroda in 1992. In 1989-91 he won the National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resources and Development and worked under the supervision of the eminent artist K. Laxma Goud, whilst at Baroda.

Prasad's paintings explore landscapes recalled and recreated through the mind's eye during dreams. Some critics have called these mystical and surreal pictures psychoscapes, or landscapes that have been touched and molded by the inner self and the alternative reality of drea...