Jacina Leong
Dr Jacina Leong is an artist-curator, educator and researcher engaged in critical processes of community engagement, arts leadership, cultural strategy, and curatorial practice.
From 2023 to 2024, Jacina was Acting CEO/Director for Next Wave, a leading not-for-profit arts organisation that, since 1984, has played a pivotal role in supporting early-career practitioners working across multiple art forms. She is the former Co-Director of Bus Projects (2021–2022), Public Programs Curator at The Cube (2012–2017) and Ipswich Art Gallery (2009–2011), Gallery Manager at Jan Murphy Gallery (2011–2012), Creative Producer for the Creative Industries Precinct (2008), Sessional Academic and HDR supervisor at RMIT University and La Trobe University (2020–2023), mentor for the ACMI CEO digital mentoring program (2022), and co-founding member of the Guerrilla Knowledge Unit (2017).
Jacina is currently Co-Chair of Bus Projects, a Sessional Academic at RMIT University School of Art Industry Advisory Committee, and guest curator for La Trobe Art Institute.