Monica Espinel is an independent curator and writer based in New York. She is the recipient of a Roswell L. Gilpatric Award to work in the department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011), a Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation Curatorial Fellowship at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2010) and ArtTable’s Mentorship Grant to be a curatorial fellow at Wave Hill (2009). She has published reviews in ArtNexus, Arte al Dia, Artforum.com and Flash Art. She has held positions at Marvelli Gallery, Wildenstein & Co., and Frederico Sève/Latincollector.
Henrique Faria, New YorkOctober 16 – November 24, 2009 Geometric Abstract Works: The Latin American vision from the 1950s, 60s and 70s offers a rare opportunity to view seminal works by Latin American artists whose exposure in the United States has been limited. This is the first in a series of historically rooted exhibitions on […]
Glyndor Gallery at Wave Hill, New YorkAugust 1 – November 29, 2009 Laura Anderson Barbata, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Lorenzo Clayton, Peter Edlund, Nicholas Galanin, Edgar Heap of Birds, Melanie Printup-Hope, Maria Hupfield, G. Peter Jemison, Jason Lujan, Alan Michelson, Anna Tsouhlarakis, William R. Wilson Muhheakantuck, a Lenape word meaning “the river that flows both ways,” was […]
“Allora & Calzadilla.” Arte al Dia, 127 (May, June, July 2009): 106.
Frederico Sève Gallery / Latincollector, New YorkJuly 17 – September 13, 2008 Frederico Seve/Latincollector Gallery is pleased to announce Ceremonies of Summer, a multimedia exhibition curated by Mónica Espinel. The exhibition is an homage to Marta Traba, critic, author, curator and historian, and was inspired by her first novel “Las ceremonias del verano” published in […]
Frederico Sève Gallery / Latincollector, New YorkMay 1 – June 14, 2008 Frederico Seve/Latincollector Gallery is pleased to announce a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Fanny Sanín. A Chromatic Journey, 1966 – 2006 presents Sanín’s exploration undertaken with color as the thread that links the various phases of her work. This small survey enables viewers […]
Gramercy Post, New YorkMay 4 – June 18, 2005 In its second collaboration with emerging artists, Gramercy Post is pleased to present Crackerfarm, an artist collective comprised of photographers Mike Beyer and Lindsey Rome. Their photography is a strange brew, a kind of self-reflective ethnography that evokes Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”. Like Sal Paradise’s […]
Gramercy Post, New YorkFebruary 16 – April 2, 2005 Gramercy Post is pleased to open its collaboration with emerging artists with an exhibition of work by Denise Schatz curated by Monica Espinel. Schatz makes collages and works on paper, using magazine cut-outs, graphite and colored pencils. She creates delicate, layered scenes where animals, molecules, body […]
Marvelli Gallery, New YorkJune 30 – July 31, 2004 Marvelli Gallery is pleased to present Black Milk: Theories on Suicide, a group exhibition curated by Monica Espinel, that brings together young contemporary artists whose work touches on issues related to suicide. The multimedia exhibition will include work by Charles Cohen, Ian Cooper, Elizabeth Gray & […]