R. Siva Kumar
- March 10, 2024
- Art Historian
Quick Facts
| Date Of Birth | Dec 3, 1956(1956-12-03) |
| Age | 68 |
| Country | India |
| Horoscope | Sagittarius |
R. Siva Kumar Biography
| Birthday | Dec 3 |
| Birth Year | 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Kerala |
R. Siva Kumar is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on December 3, 1956 in Kerala, Kerala, India. As of June 1, 2023, R. has a net worth approximately $5 Million. In 2013 he was awarded by the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi for his book Ram Kinkar Baij – A Retrospective.
Raman Siva Kumar (born 3 December 1956), well known as R. Siva Kumar, is an Indian contemporary art historian, art critic, and curator. 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.
In 2011 the Government College of Art and Craft in Kolkata, under principal Dipali Bhattacharya, had organised an exhibition of 23 Tagore paintings. And later 20 were found to be fake. Siva Kumar, who had already seen digital images of the paintings and, convinced that they were all fakes, had warned the college principal, Dipali Bhattacharya, against holding the exhibition. But Bhattacharya went ahead with the claim that the paintings were “genuine”.
R. Siva Kumar Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Art Historian |
| House | Living in own house. |
R. is one of the richest Art Historian from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, R. Siva Kumar 's net worth $5 Million.
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R. Ranked on the list of most popular Art Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. R. Siva Kumar celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year.