Vivan Sundaram Vivan Sundaram

Vivan Sundaram (born in 1943 to Kalyan Sundaram, Chairman of Law Commission of India from 1968 to 1971, and Indira Sher-Gil, sister of legendary Indian Modern Artist Amrita Sher-Gil) is an Indian contemporary artist. His wife is eminent art historian and critic Geeta Kapur. Training Vivan Sundaram was educated at The Doon School, the 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 , under whom he was 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 and the works of Joseph Beuys.