Monday, November 25, 2024 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (ET)
Center for the Arts - Screening Room 112North Campus
Becky Brownrbrown27@buffalo.edu
A recording of the lecture will be posted to the UB Department of Art’s YouTube and website in the coming weeks. See https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/art/news-events/visiting-artist-speaker-series.html for more info on the Speaker Series.
Mona Filip is an independent contemporary art curator and writer based in Toronto. Originally from Bucharest, Romania, where she began her artistic education, Mona received her BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC, and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Her curatorial experience spans almost 20 years, over forty exhibitions and site-specific projects, collaborations with guest curators, a broad range of public programs, and innovative educational initiatives. Most recently as Curator at the Art Museum of the University of Toronto and previously as Director/Curator of the Koffler Gallery, she consistently supported the production of new work, introducing national and international artists to Toronto with first local exhibitions, and generating critical cross-cultural discussions on global concerns. With an idea-driven and dialogue-focused approach, Mona collaborates with artists to produce experiential installations that transform the gallery space, respond to unconventional sites, and address the public on sensorial, emotional and intellectual levels. Displacement and adaptation are core concerns of Mona’s curatorial investigations, informed by her experiences of immigration and diasporic living. Bringing together a range of perspectives on memory, place and belonging, her projects examine the relationship between the personal and the political, ways of rewriting and redressing histories, and museum restitution and repair.