Azara Jaleel is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of ARTRA Magazine, Sri Lankan Modern & Contemporary Art Magazine established in 2012. She has curated ARTRA's Art Legacies Editions since their inception in 2021, including the works of Lionel Wendt, one of Sri Lanka’s foremost Modernist legacies, whose timeless works of art reveal a valiant imagination, reflecting the splendour immersed in the ordinary for Lionel Wendt Photographs E58 (2021), the vigour and wonderment and spirited temperament of Barbara Sansoni for Barbara Sansoni Drawings E60 (2021), the spirited modernism and vicarious character integral to C. Anjalendran’s buildings for Architecture of Anjalendran E62 (2022) and so forth. In 2015, she curated the exhibitions ‘Black and White Portraits’ by Dominic Sansoni and ‘Cityscapes and Forts’ by Branka Ridicki for CFW Frame, in partnership with Colombo Fashion Week.

She has conducted a range of talks about Sri Lanka’s Modern & Contemporary Art across ARTRA’s Art Experiential Festivals, generating discourses around art with local and international artists, architects and historians for The Launch of the Laki Senanayake Edition & Art Experiential Festival (March 2023) and The Launch of ARTRA Magazine's Comics & Caricatures Edition at Jetwing Lighthouse, Galle & Art Experiential Festival | Bawa Brothers (October 2023) at Brief Garden by Bevis Bawa & Cinnamon Bentota Beach.

In May 2024, she was invited by the Friends of Sri Lanka to conduct an art talk at the esteemed Royal Academy of Arts in the UK. In conversation with Prof. David Robson, the debut international art talk ‘ARTRA Unveiled’ centred ARTRA’s 12 year journey, milestones and the premise upon which varied editions of ARTRA Magazines are conceived. On 30th May, Jaleel together with Dr. Shamil Wanigaratne and Charles Moore addressed a pivotal question on the influence and impact of Sri Lankan Modern Art across the years, both within the island and beyond in their talk ‘Sri Lankan Modern Art | Beyond the Shores’ at Grosvenor Gallery, London, 

Having published over 65 editions of ARTRA Magazine, she has interviewed over 1000 art personalities, art academics, critics and historians of local and international repute, building an archive of art essays, interviews and critiques through the years. In her capacity as the Director, she has partnered with established art galleries, festivals, foundations, embassies and banks in increasing the consumption of Sri Lankan Modern & Contemporary Art. Azara received her BA (Hons.) in English from the Department of English, University of Colombo and has completed her Postgraduate Studies & Academic Courses in International Studies, Marketing & Communications from BCIS (SL), CIM (UK) and University of Virginia (USA).