Pip Day

Pip Day is a Canadian/Irish/British curator and writer. She was the Director/Curator of the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art in Montreal from 2012 to 2019. She is also a contributing editor to Cabinet Magazine and has written independently for catalogues and journals including Art Review, Curare and Photography Quarterly. Day made a contribution to the catalogue From Conceptualism to Feminism: Lucy Lippard’s Numbers Shows 1969–74 where she wrote on artists' initiatives in Argentina and their influence on Lippard's developing political consciousness.

She also established the research collective El Instituto which is currently headquarters in Mexico City. Since 2011 El Instituto has been operating as a non-for-profit organization exploring the invisible nature of politics concerning, "the overlap between art, culture, activism and human rights theory and practice, both locally and internationally." The project which features exhibitions, workshops, conferences and other various events is sponsored by the US Embassy, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Patronato de Arte Contemporaneo a.c.

Education

Day obtained a master's degree in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and a BA in Art History from the University of Toronto