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Haema Sivanesan is a curator with a specialist interest in the historical and contemporary art of South and Southeast Asia. She is currently the Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and formerly the Executive Director of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto. From 1996-2004, she was the Assistant Curator of Asian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She has curated several independent projects including a major exhibition for the Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival, Melbourne, Australia (2006) and was an invited zone curator for Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2008). In 2010 she curated the Images Prize-winning project “دلِ که سوز ندارد, دلِ نیست (the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart)” by Jayce Salloum and Khadim Ali. Her writing has appeared in various publications including Art Monthly and Artlink (Australia), Art India and Marg (India), Sohbet (Pakistan) and FUSE and Fillip (Canada). She has contributed to a range of exhibition catalogues locally and internationally.