Vivan Sundaram had an overall net worth of $1 million at the time of his death. He made his fortune from his successful career as one of India’s pioneering multidisciplinary contemporary artists.
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Vivan Sundaram was active in the students’ movement of May 1968 and helped set up a commune in London where he lived till 1970.

Vivan Sundaram has shown his talent in diverse media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art.
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Since 1990, Vivan Sundaram made installations that included sculpture, photographs, and video.
Some of these installations include: “Memorial” (1993, 2014), an elaborate work made in response to communal violence in Bombay; a monumental site-specific installation at the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, now referred to as “History Project” (1998); continuing work on his family, which includes the installation, “The Sher-Gil Archive” (1995), and digital photomontages, “Re-take of ‘Amrita’” (2001–06), based on photographs taken by Umrao Singh Sher-Gil.
Vivan Sundaram’s works have been exhibited in the Biennials of Kochi (2012), Sydney (2008), Seville (2006), Taipei (2006), Sharjah (2005), Shanghai (2004), Havana (1997), Johannesburg (1997), and Kwangju (1997).


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