# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vivan-sundaram
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:57.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vivan-sundaram"
name: "Vivan Sundaram"
slug: "vivan-sundaram"
description: "Vivan Sundaram was an Indian contemporary artist. He 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. His work constantly referred to social problems, popular culture, problems of perception, memory, identification and history. He was married to art historian and critic Geeta Kapur."
tagline: "Indian artist (1943–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vivan_Sundaram_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1943-05-28"
deathDate: "2023-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.794137333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4703687/"
    handle:    "nm4703687"
sources:
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    title: "ویوان سندرم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڤيڤان سوندارام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivan_Sundaram"
    title: "Vivan Sundaram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivan_Sundaram"
    title: "Vivan Sundaram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivan_Sundaram"
    title: "Vivan Sundaram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A6%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82"
    title: "വിവാൻ സുന്ദരം"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "விவான் சுந்தரம்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1134398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump