Gabriela Monroy is a Mexican visual artist and film curator living and working between Berlin, Helsinki and New York. In 2001 she received a Masters in Film and Video from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. The same year she was awarded Mexico’s National Foundation for Culture and Arts Fellowship for Young Emerging Artists. Her video installation work was selected as part of the 10th National Biennial of Photography of Mexico. In 2009 she was selected as one of The MacDowell Colony’s National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipients. In 2011 she was awarded the NYFA/ Deutsche Bank America’s Foundation Fellowship in Digital and Electronic Arts. She had been invited as juror for Transitio – International Festival for Electronic Arts and Video. She has participated in exhibitions in Mexico, Europe, Korea and the US, and her work is part of the INBA collection, Mexico’s National Institute for Fine Arts.

Since 2002, she has been working in collaboration with the German video artist Caspar Stracke under the name MOSTRA. In 2004 they were awarded a NYSCA Film and Media Production Grant for an Interactive video installation for cinema space and in 2013, they received an EMARE residency at FACT (Liverpool).

Since 2005, Monroy and Stracke are the directors of video_dumbo, an annual festival/exhibition of international contemporary moving image art in New York. Video_dumbo has been presented at Loop (Barcelona), Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico), Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn), MMX (Berlin), Space Bandee (Busan) and The Banff Centre, among others. In 2014 video_dumbo presented 106 artists from 29 different countries at Eyebeam, Art + Technology Center in New York.

Last year Monroy and Stracke were selected as the curators of the 60th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar "Turning The Inside Out" in which they presented 12 international artists within the inquiring framework of expanded forms in documentary.

 

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