Uma Shankhar Shah was born in Janakpur in 1963. After his graduation in Painting (1988), he pursued further education in Painting and completed his post-graduation in 1991. Between 1984 and 2017, his solo shows have been exhibited in different galleries, mostly in Jahagir Art Gallery, Bombay, Shreedharni Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Visual Art Gallery, New Delhi, Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi, Juno Art Gallery, South Korea, Siddhartha Art Gallery, Nepal. He has also participated in international shows in Bharat Triennale, Asian Museum Japan, France Triennale, Bangladesh Biennale, Miami Art Fest Dora and at the Fine Art Institute Museum, Chonquing in Sichuan, China. He has participated in several other solo shows and group shows held nationally and internationally. He has won the Best Etching Award at Art Fest Doral in Miami twice in 2013 and 2014. He also received the first prize at the second Xuyuan print Biennale in China. His works incorporate the forms and contents of early Nepali religious and folk arts and they depict the image of nature and Hindu mythologies appealing for the preservation of natural and cultural heritage of Nepal. He is presently a Lecturer of Painting in Tribhuwan University.