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Mini Sivakumar was an Indian visual artist.


Early life and education

Mini Sivakumar was born in
Trivandrum Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the largest and ...
in 1962 and took her post-graduation in Zoology. She then pursued her post-doctoral research at Visva Bharati University. She was married to the eminent art historian,
R. Siva Kumar Raman Siva Kumar (born 3 December 1956), known as R. Siva Kumar, is an Indian contemporary art historian, art critic, and curator. His major research has been in the area of early Indian modernism with special focus on the Santiniketan School. ...
.


Career

In 2001 she took art as a profession and had conducted different national and international shows. In the year 2008, she conducted a major solo show at Birla Akademy,
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. She is known for her "vibrancy of color and the dynamism of a creative outpouring"


Cancer and death

Mini died of breast cancer on 5 September 2010.


References

1961 births 2010 deaths 20th-century Indian painters Painters from Kerala Artists from Thiruvananthapuram Indian women painters 20th-century Indian women 20th-century women painters {{India-artist-stub