Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath

Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath is a visual arts complex on Kumara Krupa Road in Bengaluru. It began in 1960 as the Mysore Chitrakala Parishath, set up by the artist M. Aryamurthy in his garage after Chief Minister Kengal Hanumanthaiah urged him to organise the state's artists. It became an art college in 1964 and moved to its three-acre site in the mid-1970s, and it still runs the College of Fine Arts.

Thirteen of its 18 galleries hold a permanent collection of paintings, sculpture and folk art, including Mysore paintings and leather puppets; the others are let for exhibitions. It has India's largest collection of work by Nicholas Roerich, 36 paintings from his Himalayan series given by his son Svetoslav, as well as pieces by Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy and MF Husain. Since 2004, on the last Sunday of each January, the Chitra Santhe art fair turns the road from Shivananda Circle to the Windsor Manor hotel into an open-air gallery.