Linda Jansma (born 1962) was the Interim Director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa (2019-2020) and Senior Curator (1994-2012).
[1] She is a Canadian art historian who places collaborative partnerships with institutions across Canada at the centre of her practice.
She co-curated the exhibition and publication of Jock Macdonald: Evolving Form (Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2013-2014) in which she published Macdonald works she discovered done in Vancouver which show his first foray into automatism, held in the Pailthorpe and Mednikoff archives in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Archives.
[3] She also curated or co-curated many contemporary Canadian art exhibitions of such Canadian artists as Mary Anne Barkhouse in Mary Anne Barkhouse: Boreal Baroque (Galley Stratford, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Thames Gallery (2007-2008), Holly King in Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious (Thames Art Gallery, Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke; Musée du Bas-Saint-Laurent, 2016-2017), Ed Pien, Nell Tenhaaf, and organized a mid-career survey show of artists Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins,[2] as well writing entries for publications and mentoring emerging curators and writers in Canada.
[1] Besides curating shows, she was involved in commissioning public sculpture by Mary Anne Barkhouse, Douglas Coupland and other sculptors as well as purchases of work by Sarindar Dhaliwal and Tazeen Qayyum.