Born in 1966 in Calicut, Kerala, Sasikrishnan holds a BFA and an MFA degree from Karnataka University. He is an award winning art teacher and an art director who has directed a number of short films, and has exhibited widely in both India and abroad. Sasikrishnan founded the Philaesthoism Movement of Art – an art philosophy that incorporates the innumerable nuances of love, beauty and human relations into contemporary art.