About Monica Filip

Mona Filip is a contemporary art curator and writer based in Toronto. Originally from Bucharest, where she began her artistic education, Filip received her BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Most recently as Curator at the Art Museum of the University of Toronto and previously Director/Curator of the Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Filip’s curatorial practice spans almost two decades and over forty exhibitions and sitespecific projects, collaborations with guest curators, a broad range of public programs, and innovative educational initiatives. 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).