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It was 25 years ago and on the other side of the world when Haema Sivanesan first heard about a museum-gallery hybrid in downtown Calgary that held an extensive collection of Asian art.
She was early in her career, working as a curator in the Asian art department of The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. So she was particularly interested in hearing about the unusually vast collection of art and artifacts the Glenbow Museum had amassed that fell directly into her wheelhouse.
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Haema Sivanesan is a curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV), British Columbia. She has held leadership and curatorial positions in public galleries and visual art centers across Canada, as well as in Australia and South Asia. Her curatorial work typically focuses on art from South and Southeast Asia and its diasporas, with an interest in non-Western post-colonial and trans-national histories, world views, and practices. Recent exhibitions include:
Imagining Fusang: Exploring Chinese and Indigenous Encounters (2019),
Fiona Tan: Ascent (2019)
Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest (2018).
In 2018, Sivanesan was a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, Curatorial Research Fellowship (2018–19); and in 2016, she was a recipient of a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, Hong Kong, multi-year research and exhibition development grant for the project