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Art and Art History Presents
Haema Sivanesan
Thursday 29 January 2009
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Sheridan, Lecture Hall B124
Haema Sivanesan is a curator and Executive Director of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) a non-profit artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation and promotion of contemporary South Asian Visual Art.
From 1996-2004 she was the Assistant Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a leading state museum in Sydney Australia. She has curated several independent projects including a major project for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival in Melbourne, Australia (2006) and more recently, was a zone curator for Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2008. She is a specialist in the area of contemporary and historical art from South and Southeast Asia.
Sivanesan will talk about a range of recent SAVAC projects, and the organization’s unique contribution to the Canadian cultural landscape.
Image: Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali (2008) “the heart that has no love/pain/generousity is not a heart” detail, multi-media, dimensions variable
From 1996-2004 she was the Assistant Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a leading state museum in Sydney Australia. She has curated several independent projects including a major project for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival in Melbourne, Australia (2006) and more recently, was a zone curator for Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2008. She is a specialist in the area of contemporary and historical art from South and Southeast Asia.
Sivanesan will talk about a range of recent SAVAC projects, and the organization’s unique contribution to the Canadian cultural landscape.
Image: Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali (2008) “the heart that has no love/pain/generousity is not a heart” detail, multi-media, dimensions variable
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