Monika Fabijanska is an independent art historian and curator. She is also a USPAP-complaint art appraiser. Her critically acclaimed exhibition Women at War (Fridman Gallery, 2022), listed among ten best art exhibitions of 2022 by both The Washington Post and Frieze, is touring U.S. and Canada – including Wesleyan University, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Chicago Cultural Center, and North Dakota Museum of Art – through 2026. Betsy Damon. Passages: Rites and Rituals (La MaMa Galleria, 2021) was among The New York Times’ best art shows of 2021, following ecofeminism(s) (Thomas Erben Gallery, 2020), and a groundbreaking The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women's Art in the U.S. (John Jay College CUNY, 2018), which was ranked among the best NYC art shows in 2018 by Hyperallergic. Fabijanska provided the initiative, and curatorial and art market consulting for The Museum of Modern Art acquisition of works and retrospective exhibition of Polish feminist sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (2012). She has published in exhibition catalogs, edited volumes, academic journals and magazines. She teaches Curatorial Practice at New York University.

Fabijanska is currently co-writing a book about Betsy Damon and organizing the artist’s archive, and is also working on a large transnational exhibition, supported with The Andy Warhol Foundation’s Curatorial Research Fellowship. www.monikafabijanska.com