Based in Singapore for the last ten years, Tanya Michele Amador is an independent curator and freelance writer specialising in Southeast Asian contemporary art.  She has collaborated with local art galleries and worked with international artists such as the Gao Brothers and local artists such as Aiman, Justin Lee and Nandita Mukand on curated projects and events.  As a published writer, she has written for various magazines and newspapers in the United States and for Art Republik, Plural Art Mag, and Art & Market in Singapore, and has lectured at the Asian Civilisations Museum on Indonesian contemporary performance artist Melati Suryodarmo, who was the focus of her MA thesis.