Ashok Mathur is a South Asian (Indo-Canadian) cultural organizer, writer and visual artist, and currently dean of graduate studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. Prior to this he was the head of Creative Studies and a professor in the Department of Creative Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. As a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry, he also directed the Centre for Innovation in Culture and the Arts in Canada (CiCAC)