R. Siva Kumar
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R . Siva Kumar lecturing at the opening of The Last Harvest : Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore, Museum of Asian Art, Berlin (2012).
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| Born |
3 December 1956 Kerala, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Raman Siva Kumar |
| Education | Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom Visva-Bharati University |
| Alma mater | Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom Visva-Bharati University |
| Occupation | Art historian, art critic and curator; principal of Kala Bhavana |
| Movement |
Bengal school of art Contextual Modernism |
| Spouse(s) | Mini Sivakumar |
| Children | Siddharth Sivakumar (Son) |
Raman Siva Kumar (born 3 December 1956), well known as R. Siva Kumar, is an internationally noted contemporary Indian art historian, art critic, and curator. In 2010, in his interview with the Web of Stories the eminent artist K. G. Subramanyan refers to R. Siva Kumar as "one of the best" art historians . R. Siva Kumar's major research has been in the area of early Indian modernism with special focus on the Santiniketan School. He has written several important books, lectured widely on modern Indian art and contributed articles to prestigious international projects such as the Art Journal,Grove Art Online or The Dictionary of Art, Oxford University Press.
He was awarded the Kesari puraskaram for art writing by the Lalit Kala Akademi, Kerala in 2010. He has also curated major exhibitions like Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism, and The Last Harvest : Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore and retrospectives of important Indian artists, such as Rabindranath Tagore, Benode Behari Mukherjee(co-curated with Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh), K. G. Subramanyan. He also has co-curated an exhibition titled "Tryst with Destiny" for the Singapore Art Museum to mark the 50 years of Indian Independence and served as a curatorial adviser for Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose curated by Sonia Rhie Quintanilla for the San Diego Museum of Art.
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