Shalini Ganendra

Shalini Ganendra(nee Amerasinghe. born 14th October, 1965), cultural leader and scholar, has developed pioneering platforms for multi-disciplinary and transnational engagement. Developing meaningful and impactful cultural encounters has been a focus of her non-profit programming. "Cultural Entrepreneurship is fluid and enabling, for cultural value creation and inter-disciplinary engagement. The reach of well curated 'cultural capital' to critically engage with and inform community, has been a key driver of our advisory's programming."[1][2] A number of groundbreaking transnational projects have been introduced to South East Asia through this advisory platform.[3] The organisational objectives, research focus and driving philosophy aim to support the region's creators; '"vernacular" aesthetic practises, and to promote multi-disciplinary and cross cultural exchange.[4]

Ganendra has served on the Tate Gallery Acquisitions Committee; the Fashion Film Awards – ASVOFF 6 at the Pompidou Centre,Paris;[5]; Sovereign Art Prize;[6] ;Commonwealth International Artists Residencies;[7] and the inaugural Caochangdi PhotoSpring Festival(a collaboration with Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival), in Beijing.[8] She was a nominator for the Smithsonian Institution's SARF program (Smithsonian Artist Residency Fellowship) and a Chief Judge for the Commonwealth Foundation Art Awards. She has presented on Cultural and Social Entrepreneurship, including at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Public Policy, Washington DC and at numerous universities and schools. She has been awarded Visiting Fellowships at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge to further critically acclaimed inter-disciplinary research.

She has initiated non-profit programs to bring attention to South East Asia, the regions creators and creative practises, including through the Vision Culture Lectures, supported by UNESCO Observatory, 2010 -2016, to bring international luminaries to Malaysia.[9] The UNESCO Observatory published a selection of essays by participants in the program, as the Arts in Asia Issue 2016.[10] In 2015, SGA launched the PavilionNOW project for green design and architecture.

Education

Shalini Ganendra is Sri Lankan born, with education in the United Kingdom and United States before settling in Malaysia. She attended National Cathedral School, Washington D.C. and then Phillips Exeter Academy from where she graduated with High Honours and as a National Cum Laude Scholar. She was made a Harkness Fellowship by the Academy in 2007.

Ganendra studied briefly at Stanford University. A fourth generation Cantabrigian, she read law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she was awarded the Dr. Cooper's Law Fellowship. She completed postgraduate legal study at Columbia Law School. She practised with Shearman & Sterling (New York and London) after qualifying as a New York attorney (1989) and Barrister at Law (Lincoln's Inn, 1988).

Life and work

Shalini Ganendra was born in Sri Lanka (nee Amerasinghe),[11] and educated in the United Kingdom and the United States Malaysia. She practised law with Shearman & Sterling, specialising in Corporate Finance/ Mergers & Acquisitions, before developing the mantle of cultural entrepreneurship. She married to fellow Cantabrigian and Trinity Hall graduate, Dr. Dennis Ganendra.

She founded Shalini Ganendra Advisory as a gallery in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which transitioned to an inter-disciplinary cultural advisory.[12] Her academic, advisory and curatorial focuses are art practise, architecture and design from Asia (Malaysia,Sri Lanka in particular)[13] and she has published a number of articles on these specialisations.[14][15] The Advisory developed the award winning, eco-friendly space, designed by architect Ken Yeang, that made history as one of the first buildings in Malaysia to secure Green Building certification. Gallery Residence (also known as the Ganendra Art House) was twice nominated for the Aga Khan Architecture Award. The Wall Street Journal has described Gallery Residence as an "experimental tropical structure".[16]

Ganendra has published extensively on the subject of contemporary and modern art practices of Sri Lanka and Malaysia and on cultural markets. She has developed exhibitions to promote diversity, discovery and cross-cultural dialogue.[17][18][19][20] which have regularly gained news coverage.[21] Her dedication to credible and innovative public programming has helped foster growing awareness of Sri Lankan and Malaysian geopolitics, through a different lens. In 2016, she developed the Gallery Weekend Kuala Lumpur, a city-wide, annual cultural marquee, to foster stronger ties between arts and community.[22]

Pioneering exhibitions include: Colours of Karma at the Nehru Centre, Mayfair, London, which featured leading Sri Lankan artists, in 2005. She introduced contemporary Sri Lankan and Malaysian artists during New York's Asia Week 2006 -2008 and 2015 in a series of exhibitions titled Serendipity and My Country.[23]

She was President of the Oxford & Cambridge Society, Malaysia,[24], a founding Board Member of the English Speaking Union, Malaysia.[25] and of the Advisory Board, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

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References
  1. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, McGill University 2015,https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/cultural-entrepreneurship-emerging-markets-shalini-ganendra-fine-art-254197/
  2. Sri Lanka Foundation, May 2009, "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 21 December 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Sarah Sabaratnam. "A heart for art", New Straits Times.
  4. Life & Art Mix Outside KL, https://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/05/14/life-and-art-mix-outside-kuala-lumpur/
  5. ASVOFF6 -http://dianepernet.typepad.com/diane/2013/05/shalini-ganendra-at-les-deux-abeilles.html
  6. Sovereign Art Prize- http://www.sovereignartfoundation.com/art-prizes/asia/nominators.php
  7. Commonwealth Foundation – http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/craftawards/cc2009judges%5B%5D
  8. Caochangdi PhotoSpring Festival 2010 – http://www.ccdphotospring.com
  9. Vision Culture Lectures SGFA "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. UNESCO Observatory – Arts in Asia http://education.unimelb.edu.au/about_us/specialist-areas/arts_education/melbourne_unesco_observatory_of_arts_education/the_e-journal/volume-5-issue-2
  11. Amerasinghe Family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Shirley_Amerasinghe
  12. Jacquelyn Lewis. Smaller Space but Steady Sales at Asian Art Fair. Art+Auction. http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27119/smaller-space-but-steady-sales-at-asian-art-fair/
  13. Excellent sales and record crowds. The Asian Art Fair. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 12 April 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. Asian Art Newspaper UK, November 2007 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. Asian Art Newspaper UK, November 2006 http://www.asianartnewspaper.com/article/an-island-of-aesthetics%3A-sri-lankan-contemporary-art Archived 20 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  16. Life & Art Mix Outside KL, https://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/05/14/life-and-art-mix-outside-kuala-lumpur/
  17. D. Maheshwari. Speakers Club's 'Blast from the Past'. New Straits Times. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-82546521.html Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  18. Sharifah Arfah. Enduring magic of Oxbridge. New Straits Times. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-82615226.html Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  19. Anna Yusof. Culinary Treat for Amex card members. New Straits Times. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-92984392.html Archived 17 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  20. Siti Hajar Abd. Celebrating Oxbridge Anniversary. New Straits Times. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-93356257.html Archived 19 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  21. Shuib Taib. Auspicious 8. New Straits Times. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-107531086.html Archived 19 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  22. Gallery Weekend Kuala Lumpur http://www.gw-kl.com/
  23. Art by Aref Omar NST. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  24. Oxford & Cambridge Society – http://www.oxbridgemalaysia.com
  25. English Speaking Union – http://www.esumalaysia.com.my
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