Born and raised in Tkaronto/Toronto, Jasmine Sihra is a researcher and student. She completed her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies at Western University in 2020. She received her Master’s degree in Art History from Concordia University in 2022, where she wrote her thesis “Melting Glaciers and Rising Seas: Indigenous Digital Art in the Arctic and Pacific Islands.” Currently, Jasmine is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. Valuing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in addressing environmental degradation and pollution, her career and research focus on how the arts can contribute to planning for inevitable climate disasters, particularly for underserved and underrepresented communities.
Alongside her academic career, Jasmine has worked as a curator and arts administrator for several projects, including the international Inuit art exhibition Ilagiit/Relatives (2024). In 2023, she became the first Curator of Sustainability and Engagement at Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery. She is also an active participant in the Centre for Sustainable Curating at Western University.
Her research is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship (2022) and Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship (2022). Jasmine has also been awarded Concordia’s Special Entrance Award twice, the first of which she received alongside her SSHRC Canada-Graduate Scholarship- Master’s (2020). During her undergraduate degree, she was awarded the Craig Henshaw Visual Arts Philanthropy Award (2019) and the Madeline Lennon Essay Award (2018) by the Visual Arts Department at Western University.
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