Vivan Sundaram was an Indian contemporary artist.
13 Facts About Vivan Sundaram
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Vivan Sundaram worked in many different media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature.
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Vivan Sundaram was married to art historian and critic Geeta Kapur.
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Vivan Sundaram was born in Simla, Simla Hill States, British Raj in 1943.
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Vivan Sundaram's parents were Kalyan Sundaram, Chairman of Law Commission of India from 1968 to 1971, and Indira Sher-Gil, sister of noted Hungarian-Jewish Indian modern artist Amrita Sher-Gil.
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Vivan Sundaram then went to the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and at Slade School of London where he studied history of cinema.
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Vivan Sundaram was active in the students' movement of May 1968.
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Vivan Sundaram helped set up a commune in London where he lived till 1970.
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Vivan Sundaram worked in many different media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature.
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Vivan Sundaram was among the first Indian artists to work with installation.
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Vivan Sundaram reconfigured the photographs and recast the family in new roles, retelling family history.
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Vivan Sundaram died following a brief illness in New Delhi, on 29 March 2023, at the age of 79.
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Vivan Sundaram was married to art historian and critic Geeta Kapur.