Monika Szewczyk

Born 1975, independent writer and curator based in Brussels, Belgium and Vancouver, Canada. She holds degrees in International Relations (BA) and Art History (MA) from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. For the past three years, she was assistant curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery and an instructor at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, where she continues to teach in the Critical + Cultural Studies Department. Apart from several exhibition projects, numerous catalogue contributions, as well as reviews and critical essays for publications such as A Prior (Ghent), Art Papers (Atlanta), C Magazine (Toronto) and Fillip (Vancouver). Interests: I wish to contribute to the evolving discourse about exhibition making or ‘the curatorial’ with an expansive consideration of the salon as an exhibition model. This model can be situated within contemporary debates about the social possibilities of exhibition making and within historical examples of the social function of salons.