Monica Tap


Monica Tap is a Canadian painter, artist and academic. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She is known for engaging and challenging conventions around landscape and still-life painting.

Biography

Tap was born in Edmonton, Alberta.

Artistic career

Tap has exhibited her work across Canada and abroad, and is currently represented by in Toronto and in Edmonton.
Tap often uses photographs and video stills as source material for her paintings. Barry Schwabsky has noted that "her art offers one of the richest and most original revisionary instances of how the temporality of the act of looking can continue to keep painting in motion today".

Education

Tap attended NSCAD University, and studied Fine Arts under Gerald Ferguson.

Exhibitions

;Selected solo and two-person exhibitions
;Recent group exhibitions
Monica Tap's works are included in many private and public collections including Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Canada House, Bank of Montréal, TELUS, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts, ESSO Imperial Oil Canada, CIBC Mellon, University of Toronto, Würth Collection, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Examples of work