Safia Siad, Curator and Project Manager

Safia Siad is a curator, scholar, and DJ with a practice centered in deep listening. As a founding member of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab, Siad operates at the intersections of the visual and audio poetics of the African diaspora. Her deep listening sessions have taken place in Montreal, Florence, Toronto, and Banff, while her writing has appeared in C Magazine and in multiple exhibition catalogues. She recently completed her SSHRC funded Master of Arts (Art History) at Concordia University and is currently a curatorial fellow with Gallery TPW.