Vivan Sundaram

Vivan Sundaram

Vivan Sundaram (born in 1943, Simla, India) is an Indian contemporary artist. He is the nephew of legendary Indian Modern Artist Amrita Sher-Gil, his wife is eminent art historian and critic Geeta Kapur.

Training

Vivan Sundaram was a student of painting at Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, and at Slade School of London. In London he met the legendary British-American painter R. B. Kitaj [http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/vivan_sundaram.htm] , under whom he trained for some time.

Work

Sundaram works in many different media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation and video art, and his work is politically conscious and highly intertextual in nature. His works in the 1980s showed a tendency towards figurative representations, and dealt with problems of identity. His works constantly refer to social problems, popular culture, problems of perception, memory and history. His latest installations and videos often refer to his artistic influences, among them are Dadaism, Surrealism, as well as more recent Fluxus [http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/vivan_sundaram.htm] and the works of Joseph Beuys.

External links

* [http://www.indianartcircle.com/vivansundaram/vs_profile.shtml at Indian Art Circle]
* [http://www.contemporaryindianart.com/vivan_sundaram.htm at Contemporary Indian Art]
* [http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?1268 at Culturebase, International Artists' Database]
* [http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=2C62F6EC-A0A9-FCD5-8A8667AA1AB8EFA3 at Artists.org]
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1704/17040760.htm at Frontline/Hindu On Net]


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