Glenbow Appoints Chief Curator

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Haema Sivanesan joins the Glenbow in Calgary as chief curator after a year-long international search. 

She comes to the position from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, where she has worked as a curator since 2015. 

Sivanesan is interested in non-Western, post-colonial and transnational histories. 

Exhibitions she has most recently curated include Imagining Fusang: Exploring Chinese and Indigenous Encounters, Fiona Tan: Ascent and Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest.

In 2018, she was awarded a $50,000 curatorial research fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Two years earlier, she received a multi-year research and exhibition development grant from the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation in Hong Kong for the forthcoming project, In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice.

Source: Glenbow