Born and raised in Tsí tkaròn:to (‘Toronto’), Dr. Jasmine Sihra is an educator, researcher, and curator. She completed her PhD in Art History at Concordia University in 2026. 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. Dr. Sihra is Punjabi Sikh, and she was raised in an immigrant household.
Alongside her academic career, Dr. Sihra has worked as a curator and arts administrator for several projects, including the international Inuit art exhibition Ilagiit/Relatives (2024). She served as the first Curator of Sustainability and Engagement at Concordia’s Faculty of Fine Arts (FOFA) Gallery from 2023 to 2024. She is also an active participant in the Centre for Sustainable Curating at Western University.
Her research has been 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). Dr. Sihra 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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