Krishna Manandhar completed his diploma in Fine arts from J.J. School of Arts in Mumbai. He participated in the 20th arts exhibition conducted by Skib organization and has had held two solo arts exhibitions. He was awarded the first position in the arts competition held by National Association of Fine Arts in 1971, the Talent Award for two years, and the Educational Award from Tribhuvan University.

He lives with his wife, a son, and a daughter. His wife works as a teller, in a bank, whereas, he has been servicing in the educational field since 1970 and as a campus dean for the last four years. He prefers playing chess second to painting.

As the dean of College of Fine Arts, in Kathmandu, Krishna Manandhar is attempting to establish a colony of international standard artists. He thinks to facilitate this colony for the foreign and national artists to interact with each other, paint, learn, and entertain. For his master plan, he seeks around a hecter of land at a suitable site.

The College of Fine Arts in Kathmandu provides education only till the Bachelor's level. But Manandhar is very hopeful for the establishment of Masters of Arts in his college from next year. He shows great satisfaction in the perception of such advancement.

Besides the academic training a student gets, Manandhar implies that to be a good artist, the student must also build up sincerity, skills, and manners. He sincerely asserts that previously it was believed that an artist had to learn abroad to be well trained but nowadays, he can achieve needed training in the country itself.

He agrees that there are many potential young artists sprouting throughout the nation. Most of them use modernistic and realistic methods to portray their objects. Manandhar explains that it is necessary for an artists to be familiar with the different prospects of drawing, but even without knowing so, one can always innovate his own fashion to illustrate his intentions.

The dean of the College of Arts, he feels triumphant to know that none of his former students have had to stay idle or unemployed and that around 10% of them have already established their own standing in the society.

He finds Siddhimuni Shakya exceptional in traditional paintings and Prem Man, Amir Man, and Sarit Ranjit best among the young artists. He also admires the works of Udaya Man, Charan Shrestha, and Deepak Joshi of all the new generation artists. He highly regards Sashi Shah, Uttam Nepali, Bijaya Thapa, and Kiran Manandhar as very talented contemporary colleagues.

He having toured around Australia, Japan, Russia, India, and German organizing group arts exhibition, predicts that there is bright scope for Nepali arts in the future. He is positive that nowadays, one can easily earn his livelihood as an artist.

While taking this interview, he informs that there is a group arts exhibition of paintings Lain Singh Bangdel, Bijaya Lama, self, Sarita Dangol, and Sobha being held at Seoul, Korea.