The Bass Museum of Art is excited to announce our 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.

From 2018 to 2020, Jasa 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.