Jasa McKenzie is a Curator and Creator based in Minneapolis, MN.

Jasa is a queer Curator/Creator, her work driven by issues of identity, equality, climate, and social justice. She currently holds two positions with The Great Northern, a recurring multidisciplinary exhibition focused on climate change in Minneapolis, MN, and also with Hawai’i Contemporary, supporting the exhibiton of the Hawai’i Triennial 2025. She has been a part of the curatorial teams for documenta fifteen in Kassel, Germany (2022), Desert X in the Coachella Valley, California (2019, 2021), and Berlin Biennale 10 in Berlin, Germany (2018). She was the creator and co-host of SOTA: State of the Arts (2018-2020)–a podcast dissecting critical issues in contemporary art, along with SOTA Projects, which produced pop-up exhibitions and programming in the Twin Cities. She was the first-place recipient of the 2017-18 Apexart Exhibition Franchise Program, which resulted in the exhibition Absences in Nagoya, Japan (2018).