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Pip Day is a curator, writer, educator, and advisor based in Berlin and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montréal with a practice of long-term collaborative research, programming and change-making within cultural institutions. As Director/Curator at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Tiohtià:ke between 2012 and 2020, she instituted social-justice oriented programs and developed dozens of exhibitions, events, research, and collaborative actions including Sovereignty; Água Viva (after Clarice Lispector); and Colors: for 14 women’s voices (after Julius Eastman), among others. She has worked with artists, writers, and curators including Anna Boghiguian, Dana Michel, Ursula Johnson, Sepake Angiama, Jackie Wang, Zacharias Kunuk, Irmgard Emmelhainz, María Berríos, Pablo Lafuente, Suzanne Kite, Harun Farocki, Atelier Céladon, Layli Long Soldier, Maria Hupfield, Sarah Pierce, Rike Frank, Tania Bruguera, Pablo Sigg, Ashon Crawley, and many others. She was Co-Curator of the 2016 Santa Fe Biennial and recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Curatorial Research Fellowship for the project Spatial Practices in Revolution at Centro Tlatelolco, Mexico City (2011 to present). Pip founded the research organization el-instituto in Mexico City in 2008 and was founder and director of teratoma’s Residencias Internacionales en México (RIM) and Estudios Curatoriales, the first curatorial studies program in Latin America, both in 2002. Prior to that Pip was Curator at Artists Space in New York City. She has taught on curatorial and contemporary art postgraduate programs at Bard College and the Royal College among others. She was a Lecturer at Goldsmiths’ MFA in Curating. She has published and lectured extensively across Europe and the Americas.