Linda Jansma

Linda Jansma (born 1962) was the Interim Director of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa (2019–2020) and Senior Curator (1994–2012). She is a Canadian art historian who places collaborative partnerships with institutions across Canada at the centre of her practice.

Career Linda Jansma was born in Bowmanville and grew up in Hampton, Ontario. She received her Honours BA in Art History from Queen's University, Kingston (1985) and her MA in Art History from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk (1986). She served as Registrar/Assistant Curator (1989–1994), Curator (1994–2012), Senior Curator (2012–2018) and Interim Director (2019–2020) of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, having retired from full-time curatorial practice in 2018.

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,