Shayari de Silva is an architect and graduate of the Yale School of Architecture who focuses on curatorial and editorial projects. She joined the Geoffrey Bawa Trust as Curator of Art & Archival Collections in 2018, where she manages the Bawa Collections, including the programs around exhibition, publication and conservation. In 2022, she was appointed chief curator. Shayari co-edited “Perspecta 51: Medium”, the Yale architecture journal published by MIT press in 2018 and she has worked at the Yale Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art, where she was a Bartels Scholar in Building Conservation.
