Monika Szewczyk (Canada/Poland) is a writer, editor and curator based in Berlin and Rotterdam. She is Head of Publications at Witte de With Center for International Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and a contributing editor of A Prior Magazine, Ghent. A long-time resident of Vancouver, Canada, she held curatorial positions at the Belkin Art Gallery then the Vancouver Art Gallery and was an instructor at the Emily Carr College of Art + Design before relocating to Europe in early 2007. Recent projects include: co-editing the publication Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture (with Grant Watson and Anshuman Dasgupta, published by MuHKA, Antwerp, 2008); the exhibition Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter in Vancouver (at Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, 2007); editing the book Paint: A Psychedelic Primer (published by the Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006); as well as numerous essays on the work of contemporary artists, notably Gillian Carnegie, Tim Lee, Valérie Mannaerts, Paulina Olowska and Judy Radul.