Breakfast at The Bass | Meet Jasa McKenzie, Associate Curator for The Bass

Join us for coffee and conversation at Breakfast at The Bass!

Executive Director Silvia Karman Cubiñá introduces the museum’s new Associate Curator, Jasa McKenzie.

Jasa McKenzie (she/her) is a queer curator whose practice is informed by questions of identity, human connection, and expansive modes of imagination. Prior to The Bass, she led creative programming for The Great Northern, a multidisciplinary festival in Minneapolis dedicated to climate change solutions.  Jasa 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.

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.