NATASHA SIDHARTA
Director and Founder

A few labels that are often attached to her would be collector, enthusiast, connoisseur, or patron. It may all be true, but she does a little bit more than all that. As a part of an ecosystem, she takes the role of caressing and nurturing in various forms. She produces differing art exchanges including the Indonesia Pavilion at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024), a retrospective of Handiwirman Saputra’s in TOLOT/Heuristic Shinonome, Tokyo (2015), as well as co-initiating ‘Pollination’(since 2017) with Zoe Butt.

Natasha actively supports various art institutions both locally and internationally, as an advisor to Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, Co-Chair for Jakarta Young Art Collectors Association, board member of IndoArtnow, Co-Chair for Southeast Asia Collector Circle Mori Art Museum (Japan) and CIMAM (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art), Selection Committee member for Art Taipei, Board of Patron for New York Sculpture Center, USA, and Board of Patron for Nottingham Contemporary, UK.

She believes that within an ecosystem, one could do more than just a single thing. Dana SAM’s forms of grants evolve as Natasha believes the ecosystem grows.