Monica Nicole Sophie Petzal | |
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Born | London, England | 22 June 1953
Known for | Painting and printmaking |
Website | https://monicapetzal.com/ |
Monica Petzal (born 22 June 1953) is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker.
Petzal was born in London, the daughter of German Jewish refugees. [1]
Petzal's recent work concerns her family's displacement from Germany under the Nazi regime and the broader themes of dissent, displacement and destruction in the twentieth century and beyond. [2]
In the 1980s, Petzal worked as a journalist and arts critic for Time Out and Art Monthly . [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
In 1994, she and Belinda Harding developed a plan to establish a Museum of Women's Art (MWA) in London. The plan was not implemented, though an inaugural exhibition, Reclaiming the Madonna, was held at the Economist Building that year. [8]
From 2000 to 2007, she was an interviewer for the British Library and Tate Gallery Archive's Artists' Lives oral history project and was considered a catalyst for the 'Art Professionals' portion, recording life story interviews with curators, critics, dealers and gallery owners. [9]
Her one-person exhibitions include:
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