Shaleen Wadhwana is an independent researcher, art curator, and culture professional. Her curatorial practice explores meta-narratives in global history and artistic responses to contemporary social issues. This is reflected in her curated group exhibitions, FRIN/GE at Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi (2021), and OSMOSIS at TARQ, Mumbai(2019). In 2022, she curated The Sindhu Project which explores the Indus Valley Civilisation as a collaboration between artists in South Asia and the USA. She has also co-designed India's first virtual artist residency Fissure with the Pollinator Interdisciplinary Lab (2021). She is academically trained in Art History (SOAS, London), Cultural Heritage Law (University of Geneva-UNESCO), Liberal Arts (Young India Fellowship, Ashoka University), Arts Appreciation(National Museum, Delhi), and History (Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University). As a Visiting Faculty at MIT Institute of Design, Pune, she teaches Big History and Design Futures and is the Humanities curriculum designer for their Innovation Programme. She has worked with cultural institutions like the British Museum, London, National Museum, Delhi, and Chemould Prescott Road Gallery, Mumbai. She co-founded The Chime Project (TCP) with Nymphea Noronha which creates cultural trails through music and history and The Cities of Dehli (CoD) with Akash Chattopadhyaya which takes 16 different 'cities' of Delhi's past present and future through educational walking tours. Her research on cultural repatriation been showcased at the Art and Antiquities Conference, in Mumbai, and in the India Perspectives Journal of the Ministry of External Affairs, India. Recently, her research was crucial in creating The Unfiltered History Tour by Vice World News UK and DentsuWebchutney at the British Museum, London, and it bagged 12 awards at the Cannes Lions Festival in France - the first time ever for India.