Ash Moniz

Ash Moniz is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompasses the realms of performance, video and installation, focusing primarily on transportation logistics and the archiving of citizenship.
 Born in 1992 in Wawa, Canada, Moniz grew up in Abu Dhabi, Casablanca, and Beijing, and is currently based in Cairo. He holds a BFA from OCAD University (Toronto, 2014), a scholarship from Nanjing University of the Arts (2013) and participated in the Mass Alexandria Independent Studio Program (Alexandria, 2016).

Moniz has exhibited with galleries and museums internationally, including solo shows. His work will be presented in the upcoming Berlinale, in the “Forum Expanded” exhibition.

He is the recipient of awards from the Ontario Arts Council, and Mophradat, among others. His work has been featured in publications such as Leap Magazine, and Diptyk Magazine. Moniz was the assistant curator of the AMNUA Museum in Nanjing in 2013/14, the director of the Boxes| Zones Quarters project in Casablanca in 2014, and co-organised “No Gate Gallery”, an artist-run-centre in Beijing, 2015/16. He has presented at Silent-Green Kulturquartier (Berlin), State of Concepts (Athens), and is currently a fellow at the Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, leading a course on performativity. Moniz is a writer for Mada Masr, an Egyptian online magazine, and also a member of the ADL collective.