Vivan Sundaram

♂ *1943 / India

Works

Solo exhibitions

Six Stations of a Life Pursued

Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (IN)
6 Sep 2025 – 16 Oct 2025
Installing: blackgold, terraoptics and the work of termites

Photoink, New Dehli (IN)
13 Apr 2019 – 30 Jun 2019
Umbrüche

Haus der Kunst, München (DE)
29 Jun 2018 – 7 Oct 2018
Terraoptics

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
10 May 2017 – 24 Jun 2017
Making Strange

Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai (IN)
27 Feb 2012 – 21 Mar 2012
Walsh Gallery Closing Show: In Beauty

Walsh Gallery, Chicago (US)
9 Sep 2011 – 24 Sep 2011
Trash

Walsh Gallery, Chicago (US)
11 Sep 2009 – 14 Nov 2009
Trash

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
17 Sep 2008 – 8 Nov 2008
RE-TAKE OF AMRITA

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
26 May 2006 – 4 Aug 2006
e-Take of Amrita

Gallery 44 Photography, Toronto (CA)
22 Sep 2005 – 29 Oct 2005
Re–take of Amrita

Walsh Gallery, Chicago (US)
4 Mar 2005 – 22 Apr 2005

Group

Moving Still: Performative Photography from India

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
20 Apr 2019 – 2 Sep 2019

with Nikhil Chopra, Anita Dube, Gauri Gill, Sunil Gupta, Ranbir Kaleka, Sonia Khurana, Pushpamala N., Tejal Shah, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Kiran Subbaiah
FACE OFF

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
24 Jan 2018 – 17 Mar 2018

with Serena Chopra, Nandita Raman, Angelika Sher, Pamela Singh, Joaquin Trujillo
Bounce

sepiaEYE, New York (US)
20 Oct 2017 – 2 Dec 2017

with Atul Bhalla, Bhupendra Karia, Qiana Mestrich, Osamu James Nakagawa, Rebecca Norris-Webb, Beatrice Pediconi, Nandita Raman, Pamela Singh, Raghubir Singh, Alex Webb
VERSUS

La sfida dell'artista al suo modello in un secolo di fotografia e disegno

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
16 Sep 2016 – 5 Feb 2017

with Claudio Abate, Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Alighiero e Boetti, Adriano Altamira, Stefano Arienti, Eugene Atget, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Joseph Beuys, Irma Blank, John Bock …
Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (US)
5 Feb 2015 – 2 Aug 2015

with Nandan Ghiya, Gauri Gill, Jitish Kallat, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective
Postdate: Contemporary Photography from India

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (US)
5 Feb 2015 – 25 Jun 2015

with Nandan Ghiya, Gauri Gill, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Dayanita Singh
BERLIN BIENNALE 8

Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
29 May 2014 – 3 Aug 2014

with Bani Abidi, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Carlos Amorales, Leonor Antunes, Julieta Aranda, Nairy Baghramian, Rosa Barba, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carolina Caycedo, Tacita Dean, Mario Garcia Torres, Shilpa Gupta …
Asianart-Sustain

Nature Morte, Berlin (DE)
6 Sep 2011 – 17 Sep 2011

with Sheba Chhachhi, SONG Dong, MIAO Xiaochun
Concurrent India

HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
4 Mar 2011 – 29 May 2011

with Sheba Chhachhi, Chitra Ganesh, Shilpa Gupta, Anita Khemka, Nalini Malani, Anay Mann, Pushpamala N., Gigi Scaria, Bharat Sikka
Water Ways

Walsh Gallery, Chicago (US)
10 Sep 2010 – 24 Nov 2010

with Sheba Chhachhi, SONG Dong, Gulammohammed Sheikh, WANG Wei , MIAO Xiaochun
Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art

Mori Art Museum, Tôkyô (JP)
22 Nov 2008 – 15 Mar 2009

with Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Bharti Kher, Pushpamala N., Justin Ponmany, Raqs Media Collective, Kiran Subbaiah
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
18 Jan 2008 – 4 May 2008

with Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jef Geys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Craigie Horsfield, Lamia Joreige, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Ilán Lieberman …
Rencontres d'Arles 2007

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
3 Jul 2007 – 16 Sep 2007

with Pablo Bartholomew, Gay Block, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Trinidad Carrillo, Julia Fullerton-Batten, GAO Brothers (Zhen & Qiang), Alberto Garcia-Alix, Sunil Gupta, Laura Henno, Arja Hyytiaeinen, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Erik Kessels …
Amrita Sher-Gil

An Indian Artist Family in the 20th Century

Tate Modern, London (GB)
28 Feb 2007 – 22 Apr 2007

with Umrao Singh Sher-Gil
2006 Taipei Biennial - Dirty Joga

Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW)
4 Nov 2006 – 27 Feb 2007

with Jonas Dahlberg, CAO Fei, Emily Jacir, Yeondoo JUNG, An-My Le, Nalini Malani, Mauro Restiffe, Werner Rhode, Carolee Schneemann, Valeska Soares, Kazuna Taguchi, Francesco Vezzoli
2006 Taipei Biennial

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (TW)
4 Nov 2006 – 25 Feb 2007

with Jonas Dahlberg, CAO Fei, Emily Jacir, Yeondoo JUNG, An-My Le, Nalini Malani, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Werner Rhode, Shahzia Sikander, Francesco Vezzoli
An Indian Artist Family in the 20th Century

Amrita Sher-Gil

Haus der Kunst, München (DE)
3 Oct 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

with Umrao Singh Sher-Gil
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India

Museo Tamayo Arte, México (MX)
18 Aug 2005 – 20 Nov 2005

with Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Dayanita Singh
Sharjah International Biennial 7

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
6 Apr 2005 – 6 Jun 2005

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Maja Bajevic, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Sonia Boyce, Miguel Calderon, Claude Closky, Phil Collins, Com & Com, Minerva Cuevas, Pio Díaz …
Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India

Queens Museum of Art, New York (US)
27 Feb 2005 – 5 Jun 2005

with Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Dayanita Singh
Edge of Desire - Recent Art in India

Asia Society, New York (US)
1 Mar 2005 – 5 Jun 2005

with Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Pushpamala N., Dayanita Singh, Gayatri Subramanian
Edge of Desire - Recent Art in India

Art Gallery of Western AUS, Perth (AU)
25 Sep 2004 – 16 Jan 2005

with Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Pushpamala N., Dayanita Singh, Gayatri Subramanian
<a href="http://www.shanghaibiennale.com/2004" target="_blank">Shanghai Biennale 2004</a>

Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
29 Sep 2004 – 28 Nov 2004

with Tariq Alvi, Tiong Ang, Big Dipper Group (Tang Yingshan Sun Zhezheng Wang Kai Yan Fenglin), Tania Bruguera, Robert Cahen, LU Chunsheng, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Stan Douglas, Touhami Ennadre, WU Ershan, CAO Fei, YANG Fudong …
Collection Agnès B

Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse (FR)
9 Apr 2004 – 14 Jun 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Kenneth Anger, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Barry, Ernest James Bellocq, Madeleine Berkhemer, Richard Billingham, Michel Blazy, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Emanuel Bovet, Brassai …
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agnès b., Paris (FR)
16 Nov 2002 – 4 Jan 2003

with Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Ryan McGinley, Bertien van Manen
Routes

Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (AT)
27 Oct 2002 – 8 Dec 2002

with Martin Beck, Emily Jacir, Dorit Margreiter, Lisl Ponger, Tim Sharp
16th World Wide Video Festival

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
19 Sep 1998 – 25 Oct 1998

with Phyllis Baldino, Breda Beban, Shu Lea Cheang, Seoungho Cho, Merilyn Fairskye, Hámos Gusztáv, Alexander Hahn, Takahiko Iimura, JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans), Kai Kaljo, Istvan Kantor, William Kentridge …

Events

INDIA ART FAIR 2025

INDIA ART FAIR, New Dehli (IN)
6 Feb 2025 – 9 Feb 2025

with Ahmed Ali, Roger Ballen, Hemant Chaturvedi, Raghu Rai, Ketaki Sheth, Umrao Singh Sher-Gil, Sooni Taraporevala, Rajesh Vora
Sharjah Biennial 15

Thinking Historically in the Present

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Feb 2023 – 11 Jun 2023

with Erkan Oezgen, John Akomfrah, Monira Al Qadiri, Farah Al Qasimi, Brook Andrew, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Pablo Bartholomew, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carolina Caycedo …
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022/23

IN OUR VEINS FLOW INK AND FIRE

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (IN)
12 Dec 2022 – 10 Apr 2023

with Basma Alsharif, Maithili Bavkar, Ali Cherri, Tenzing Dakpa, Priyageetha Dia, Forensic Architecture, Joan Jonas, Amar Kanwar, Sandip Kuriakose, Jumana Manna, Nasreen Mohamedi, Uriel Orlow …
Chennai Photo Biennale 2019

Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai (IN)
22 Feb 2019 – 24 Mar 2019

with Navjot Altaf, Kader Attia, Chan-Hyo Bae, Sheba Chhachhi, Samuel Fosso, Anna Fox, Shadi Ghadirian, Gauri Gill, Angela Grauerholz, Armin Linke, Nalini Malani, Tracey Moffatt …
Kolkata International Photography Festival 2019

Kolkata International, Kolkata (IN)
28 Feb 2019 – 4 Mar 2019

with Abir Abdullah, G.M.B. Akash, Maciej Dakowicz, Ed Kashi, William Larson, Kiyoshi Niiyama, Neo Ntsoma, Paolo Patrizi, Ram Rahman, Hans Strand, Wolfgang Zurborn
NUCLEUS | Imagining science

Noorderlicht Photofestival 2017

Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
22 Oct 2017 – 26 Nov 2017

with Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Wayne Barrar, Karin Borghouts, Alison Carey, Francesca Catastini, Debashish Chakrabarty, Caleb Charland, Edmund Clark, Robin Alysha Clemens, Ellie Davies, Anja de Jong …
Sharjah International Biennial 7

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
6 Apr 2005 – 6 Jun 2005

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Maja Bajevic, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Sonia Boyce, Miguel Calderon, Claude Closky, Phil Collins, Com & Com, Minerva Cuevas, Pio Díaz …