Artist Bio
Monica Victoria is a non-binary queer visual artist born in Tiotiá:ke (Montréal) and based in the Laurentian Mountains. Monica primarily creates within expanded film mediums, exploring how traditional film forms can be cut up and molded, producing evocative, original images and works. Their diverse background in DIY scenes, music, film production, and community organizing for social justice fuels the creative, immersive audio-visuals they create.
Monica Victoria uses both analog and digital film tools to create hybrid artworks that serve as a medium to express experiences from more unconscious, rawer states of mind. Monica runs the distribution department at Eyesteelfilm, a production company based in Montréal with a heavy focus on socio-political docs.
Education
2017 Graduated with distinction from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University. B.F.A., Specialization in Film Production.
2013 Graduated with honours from Dawson College. D.E.C., Cinema, Video and Communications.
Solo exhibitions & Screenings
2019 Awareness Fest, The REGAL at LA LIVE, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2018 Aberration, Casa Del Popolo, Montéal, Québec, Canada.
2016 Monica Victoria, Expo & Vernissage, Co-op Maison Vert, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Selected group exhibitions & screenings
2020 Inside Out: Film as a Medium for the Exploration of Experiences of Mental Illness at Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2020 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
2019 Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
2019 Research Day PEPP, Douglas Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2019 McGill University, Inst. for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2019 Photo Art Expo, Not Your Babe Fest, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2019 Sombre Décembre, Une Célébration de L’Obscure, Casa Del Popolo, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2019 The Power of Darkness Exhibit, La Plante, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2018 Queer & Peace, Warren G Flowers Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2018 Dissociation, SAW Video's Knot Project Space, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
2016 Generations Exhibition ,VAV Gallery, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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