Safia Siad, Curator and Project Manager

Safia Siad is an independent curator and DJ. Themes of joy, loving as resistance, liberation, hope, and care inform her practice. She was recently a curator-in-residence at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and curated interlude at The Art Gallery of Burlington which brought together works that meditate on the concept of rest and necessary spaces carved out for pause and preservation. Her work focuses on placemaking and archive building for those who rarely get to witness themselves reflected in art and media along with bridging the gap between institutional and non-institutional ways of teaching and learning.