Curatorial Tour with Mona Filip
A program of:
THE COUNTER/SELF
Saturday, January 28, 2023
2pm–4pm
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Join Mona Filip for an in-depth curatorial tour examining the themes and artistic strategies in the new exhibition, THE COUNTER/SELF.
This is a free, open to the public event.
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About the Curator
Mona Filip is Curator at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Originally from Bucharest, Romania, Filip received her BFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC, and her MFA from SUNY at Buffalo. Previously Director/Curator of the Koffler Gallery, she led the organization’s visual art program for fifteen years, producing over forty exhibitions and off-site projects. 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) Adi Nes (Israel), and Joshua Neustein (USA).
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Title and Page Image: Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory & Jamie Griffiths, White Liar and the Known Shore: Frobisher and the Queen, 2021. Photography on stretched canvas, hat, flagstaff, fool’s gold.