Ash Moniz

Ash Moniz is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily between the realms of performance, video, and installation. Moniz holds a BFA from OCAD University (Toronto, 2014), a scholarship at the Nanjing University of the Arts, and had participated in the Mass Alexandria Independent Studio Program in (Alexandria, 2016). Most of his recent projects, investigate the role of the nation-state within the politics of transportation logistics and citizenship, using actors, scripts, found footage, and interviews.

Moniz has exhibited with galleries and museums internationally, such as Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), Sishang Museum (Beijing), Minsheng Museum (Shanghai), and Birch Contemporary (Toronto). He was the assistant curator of the AMNUA Museum in Nanjing in 2013/14, and the director of the Boxes|Zones Quarters residency/ exhibition in Casablanca in 2014. He has presented lectures and talks at the University of Ottawa, OCAD University in Toronto, Silent-Green Kulturquartier in Berlin and State of Concepts in Athens.