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Vivan Sundaram was born in Shimla in 1943. He studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda, and at The Slade School, 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. Vivan, himself a member of the Sher-Gil family, has been engaged with the Sher-Gil project over a thirty-year period, as curator, editor, archivist. The Sher-Gil Family, a six by-eight-foot painting made in 1983-84, and The Sher-Gil Archive, an installation made in 1995, are precursors of the present work. RE-take of ‘Amrita’, a series of digital photomontages made in 2001, has been exhibited in museums and galleries in India and abroad. Vivan has also collaborated with Kumar Shahani on the script for a proposed film on Amrita Sher-Gil. Vivan Sundaram has exhibited widely nationally and internationally, organized artists’ workshops, curated exhibitions, and done public art projects. He is an active member of SAHMAT, a cultural-activist group based in Delhi. He lives in Delhi and is married to the artwriter Geeta Kapur.