Sharmini Pereira is Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka. She is the founder and Director of Raking Leaves and was co-founder of the Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design. In 2011, she was the international guest curator of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize and in 2006 she co-curated the 1st Singapore Biennale. She has written extensively on contemporary Asian art and spoken at many international conferences. Pereira lives and works in the UK and Sri Lanka.