Jasa McKenzie is a Curator and Creator based between Miami Beach, FL and Minneapolis, MN.

Jasa McKenzie (she/her) is a queer curator whose practice is informed by questions of identity, human connection, and expansive modes of imagination. She is the Associate Curator at The Bass Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami Beach. Previously, she led creative programming–with a focus on public art and music performance–for The Great Northern, a multidisciplinary festival in Minneapolis dedicated to climate change solutions.

McKenzie has contributed to the curatorial teams of the Hawaiʻi Triennial (Honolulu, 2025), documenta fifteen (Kassel, 2022), Desert X (Coachella Valley, 2019 and 2021), and Berlin Biennale 10 (2018). In 2023, she was a Curator-in-Residence with the Curatorial Program for Research’s (RE)PRESENTATION IN THE NORDICS.

From 2018 to 2020, McKenzie was the creator and co-host of SOTA: State of the Arts, a podcast that engaged with critical issues in contemporary art, and SOTA Projects, which produced pop-up exhibitions and public programming in the Twin Cities. She was the first-place recipient of the 2017-18 apexart Exhibition Franchise Program, culminating in the exhibition Absences in Nagoya, Japan (2018).

McKenzie holds a master’s degree in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Augsburg College, Minneapolis.