On his return to India in 1971, he worked with artists’ and students’ groups to organize events and protests, especially during the Emergency years.In London he met the British-American painter R. B. Kitaj,[5] under whom he trained for some time.

A series of exhibitions using found objects include Trash (2008),[13] an installed urbanscape of garbage, digital photomontages and three videos: Tracking (2003–04), The Brief Ascent of Marian Hussain (2005) and Turning (2008).

In 2017, a public art project on the uprising of the Royal Indian Navy and Bombay’s working class, titled Meanings of Failed Action: Insurrection 1946, was co-authored with cultural theorist Ashish Rajadhyaksha and sound artist David Chapman.

A 50-year retrospective exhibition, ‘Step inside and you are no longer a stranger’, invited by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, showed from February to June 2018.

[17] A solo survey exhibition titled ‘Disjunctures’, invited by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Deepak Anant, showed at Haus der Kunst in Munich, from June 2018 to January 2019.

The ongoing Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (February to June 2023), conceived by Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, includes Sundaram’s photography-based project, Six Stations of a Life Pursued (2022).