Monica Tolia
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    • Chalton Gallery for Art Night (June 2019)
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    • FUTURE PRESENT 1
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Monica Tolia

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+44 0742 487 5942


CV

Monica Tolia
Born 1989 in USA
Lives and works in London, UK


EDUCATION
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MFA Fine Art  |  2016 - 2018
Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

BA in Business Management  |  2010 - 2013
Webster University, Vienna, Austria



EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES

2020

Ruderal Consciousness,
hARTslane Gallery  |  London, UK
Return to the Body, Chalton Gallery  |  London, UK


2019
Conditions, Unit 50/51 Whitgift Centre  |  Croydon, UK
Performance: 'Ambient Reproduction' in Mass Hysteria presents: 'What'soverthefence cherries'  |  London, UK
Art Night 2019, Chalton Gallery  |  London, UK
Friday Lates: Art Schooled, V&A Museum  |  London, UK
Anamorphic Waves, Ugly Duck  |  London, UK

Performance: 'BioSonics' in UKYA City Takeover Festival, Nottingham Contemporary  |  Nottingham, UK
Diaspora Disco, Eastern Margins & Phantom Limb presents: Lunar New Year, The Yard  |  London, UK

Contingent Behaviours, Gossamer Fog  |  London, UK

2018
Open Studios, Conditions  |  Croydon, UK
Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show 2018, Goldsmiths, University of London  |  London, UK
Diffracta, Total Refreshment Centre  |  London, UK
Sonic Topologies, The Glove that Fits  |  London, UK
Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival: "what now/now what", Sofia Arsenal-Museum for Contemporary Art  |  Sofia, BG
Edited Arts presents: Radiophonic Festival, The Cause  |  London, UK

2017
MFA Open Studios, Deptford X Fringe Festival  |  London, UK
Goldsmiths MFA Interim Exhibition, Goldsmiths College  |  London, UK

NOFUTURE, Out of the Brew Gallery  |  London, UK
     event curated by the Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS) as part of the Against the Slow Cancellation of
​     the Future Conference
, 15-16 June 2017 at Goldsmiths, University of London
We're All Involved in this Mess, EnclaveLab  |  London, UK
                                                                                                                     
2016
Critical Contemplations: White Noise, Black Voices, curated by Barby Asante, 198 Contemporary Arts  |  London, UK
Outfield, Fireplace Project  |   Barcelona, Spain
     curated by Quim Packard in collaboration with Passatge Studio, art historian Rosemarie Barrientos & Ciprian Homorodean



AWARDS & GRANTS
2020  |  Arts Council England Emergency Support Grant for Artists
2019  |  Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant
2019  |  Santander Universities Prototyping Fund Grant
2018  |  a-n Biennial Bursary Award - Berlin

2016  |  Studio grant, Metàfora International Workshop, Barcelona, Spain


RESIDENCIES
2020  |  Deptford X: How to be together again, in collaboration with Moses Ward, London, UK
2019  |  Pavilion Dance Southwest, organised by Robert Bridger, Bournemouth, UK

2018  |  Desktop Choreography, RECLAIM Digital Movement Research Residency, curated by Robert Bridger, London, UK
2018  |  UK Young Artists Cornish Weekender, (funded) residency at Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives, UK


TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
2019  |  Panelist 'Digital & the Body' in 'Performance Design in the Digital Age' Symposium, V&A Museum, London UK
2018  |  RIXC Open Fields 2018: Global Control, International Conference on Art, Science, Technologies & Humanities, National Library of Latvia, Riga, LV
2018  |  'Art and Automation' stream, London Conference in Critical Thought 2018, University of Westminster, London, UK
2018  |  AVBODY: Symposium on the Audiovisual Body, The Research Centre for Performance Practices at University of Huddersfield, UK
2018  |  Visiting Tutor on BA Fine Art: Critical Practice, University of Brighton
2015  |  Curator of artist-led space, Project VIA Barcelona, press: https://zoowithoutanimals.com/hers-his-yours-theirs/


PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
'Future Present' - Monica Tolia Interview, Chrom Art Magazine.  April 2019.
Ten Artists to Watch: MA & MFA Shows 2018, Elephant Magazine.  24 July 2018
Interview: Goldsmiths MFA 2018 'art in the spotlight'.  June 2018.

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