The Berardo Collection

Vivan Sundaram was born in Shimla in 1943. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, and at Slade School of fine Art, London in the 1960s. He returned to India in 1970 and continued his painting. Since 1990 he has turned to making artworks as sculpture, installation, photography and video. These works habve been widely exhibited nationally and internationally as, for example, at the Johannesburg, Havana, Kwangiu, Shanghai, Taipei and Seville Biennales, and the Asia-Pacific Triennale. In 2008 his work was shown in 'Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art', curated by Okwui Enwezor at the International centre of Photography, New York. Sundaram has organized international artist's workshops, curated exhibitions and done public art projects. He is a member of SAHAT, a cultural activist forum base in Delhi. He lives in New Delhi.