Monica Hirano (b. 1992, Brasil) is a visual artist and independent curator. As an artist, she develops performances, installations, and videos that explore childhood, displacement, death, and the relationship between humans and other forms of life, always traversed by an awareness of impermanence.

Her curatorial research investigates the intersections between artistic practices and social movements, focusing on themes such as sexuality and dissident bodies, play as a political gesture, and critiques of control technologies, pharmacopower, and data surveillance. She is currently dedicated to studying Orientalism and its ramifications in the Brazilian context.

Over the past ten years, she has lived and worked between Egypt, India, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Brazil—experiences that shape both her artistic and curatorial practice. She has participated in exhibitions and residencies in several countries, including: Kaaysá Art Residency (Brazil, 2025), PF2119 (Brazil, 2024), IAPAR Festival (India, 2023), BorderLand Residencies (Belgium, 2023), Something Else (Egypt, 2025, 2023, 2018), OVNi Festival (France, 2022), and ETOPIA – Center for Art and Technology (Spain, 2021).

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