Mini Sivakumar was an Indian visual artist.

Early life and education

Mini Sivakumar was born in

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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,

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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