Contemporary Conversations Presents:
Marigold Santos in conversation with Haema Sivanesan
Wednesday, March 29, 2022
Join us on a journey through Calgary-based artist Marigold Santos’ work as she talks to curator Haema Sivanesan about the intent, the stories, and the processes behind her work.
This conversation is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Human Capital, on view until April 16, 2023.
Marigold Santos in conversation with Haema Sivanesan
Doors: 7:00 PM
In-Conversation: 7:30 PM
FREE with registration.
About the Speakers
Marigold Santos
ARTIST
Marigold Santos pursues an interdisciplinary art practice involving drawn, painted, and printed works, sculpture, tattooing, and sound. Her work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by diasporic experiences. She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, and an MFA from Concordia University. As a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, she continues to exhibit widely across Canada. Marigold Santos lives and works in Mohkinstsis/Calgary
Haema Sivanesan
CURATOR
Haema Sivanesan is a curator, researcher and art writer with extensive experience across a range of sectors in the visual arts in Canada and abroad. She has held leadership and curatorial positions in public art galleries, artist-run centres and festivals, most recently as a Curator, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (2015-2021); and Consulting Curator at the Bengal Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2014-2018). Before immigrating to Canada from Australia in 2005, she was a curator in the Asian art department at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1996-2004). Her research typically focuses on Asian and Asian diasporic transnational and transcultural art histories. In 2018, she was the recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (New York) Curatorial Research Fellowship; and in 2016, the recipient of a Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation (Hong Kong) multi-year research and exhibition development grant for the project In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice (2022). She is the newly appointed Director, Leighton Studios and Program Partnerships at the Banff Centre.
Human Capital is presented in partnership with the Mackenzie Art Gallery
