Monica Hirano (b. 1992) is a visual artist and independent curator. Her practice combines performance, installation, and video. Drawing from personal and collective experiences, she explores themes such as death, childhood, displacement, and the relationships between humans and other forms of life. Works focused on zoology, walking patterns, migration, and loss form an ongoing reflection on what it means to inhabit the world with an awareness of impermanence. Her pieces reveal tensions between instinct and technology, body and language, nature and structure.

As a curator, she researches intersections between artistic practices and social movements. Her projects address topics ranging from sexuality and dissident bodies to play as a political act, alongside critical reflections on technology, pharmacopower, and data surveillance.

Over the past ten years, Hirano has lived and worked in Egypt, India, Malaysia, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Brazil — experiences that shape her work through the lens of someone in constant movement across the world. She has participated in exhibitions and residencies in various 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); ETOPIA – Center for Art and Technology, Spain (2021); and Gender Bender Festival, India (2019).

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