Silja Leifsdottir is currently curator for the Norwegian Sculptors Society in Oslo. She is on the board of The Norwegian Association of Curators that recently has conducted a national survey of the living condition of Norwegian curators, and she is the co-founder of SKREID publishing, an independent publisher of Nordic photobooks. She was a co-curator at the artist-run gallery Holodeck in Oslo for two years (2012–2013) and is the co-founder and director of U.F.O. – Exhibition Guide For Oslo. In addition to her own practice, she has worked as a coordinator at Fotogalleriet, a non-profit institution for contemporary camera-based art in Oslo established in 1977. Silja initiated the Grønland Gallery Weekend (2013) which transitioned into the Oslo Art Weekend (2014–). Silja studied at the Fine Art Photography department at The Glasgow School of Art (2005-2008) and MA Curatorial Practice at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2015-2017).