Monica Tap

Monica Tap is an artist whose many activities involve exploring questions of time and representation in painting. Her practice opens up a space between landscape and abstraction, and navigates the terrain between painting and other media. Her current work is based on Quicktime videos of the landscape captured from buses, cars and trains. Over the past ten years her canvases, which are conceptual and systematic investigations into the codes of pictorial illusionism and perception, have been exhibited in Canada; New York and London, England. She is the recipient of many grants and awards, most recently from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her project, Translation as a Strategy of Renewal in Painting. Tap’s work is represented in private, corporate and public collections, including Foreign Affairs and International Trade, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Edmonton Art Gallery and Esso Imperial Oil Canada. Originally from Alberta, Monica Tap completed both her BFA (1990) and MFA (1996) degrees at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She divides her time between Toronto and New York.