About Monica Filip

Mona Filip is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Calgary. Originally from Bucharest, where she began her artistic education, Filip received her BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Recently appointed, Chief Curator at Contemporary Calgary, Filip’s curatorial practice spans almost two decades and over forty exhibitions and sitespecific projects. With an idea-driven and dialogue-focused approach, she collaborates with artists to produce experiential and immersive installations that transform the familiar gallery space, meaningfully respond to unconventional sites, and engage the public on sensorial, emotional, and intellectual levels. She developed first public gallery shows in Toronto of prominent Canadian artists such as Ghazaleh Avarzamani, Sameer Farooq, Karen Tam, and José Luis Torres, and first Canadian exhibitions of acclaimed international artists Raphaël Zarka (France) and Christian Hidaka (UK), Sigalit Landau (Israel), Esther Shalev-Gerz (France), Isabel Rocamora (UK/ Spain), Iara Freiberg (Brazil/ Argentina), and Joshua Neustein (USA).