Associate Professor David Sequeira is the Director of the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery and Associate Professor in Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. He holds a PhD from RMIT University. As an artist, curator, and academic, Sequeira's research and practice focus on the use of colour and geometry to create contemplative experiences for viewers. His multidisciplinary approach encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, photography, curatorship, and audience engagement. Born in India and educated in Australia, he examines the relationship between the two countries, having collaborated for over 20 years with traditional miniaturists in Udaipur, India. These partnerships yield works exploring change and continuity, high and low art, and the reverberations of colonisation.

Sequeira has exhibited extensively throughout Australia, with his artwork held in public collections including the National Gallery of Australia. He has received several residencies and awards, including the Australia Council for the Arts studio residency in Paris, the Collex Museum of Contemporary Art acquisitive prize, an artist-in-residence at the University of Texas, Dallas, and the Wyndham Art Prize. Prior to his current roles, he held senior positions at major cultural institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, National Film and Sound Archive, Australian Parliament House, and Old Parliament House in Canberra. In 2021–22, he was the inaugural Creative Researcher in Residence at the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne, investigating personal and shared histories in museum collections through curatorial interventions, installations, public talks, and performances, engaging over 550 tertiary students. He curated My Learned Object: Collections & Curiosities at the Ian Potter Museum of Art in 2014/2015.

Professional Email: david.sequeira@unimelb.edu.au