Monica Petzal

Monica Petzal (born 22 June 1953) is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker.

Monica Nicole Sophie Petzal
Born	(1953-06-22) 22 June 1953 (age 72) London, England
Known for	Painting and printmaking
Website	https://monicapetzal.com/

Petzal was born in London, the daughter of German Jewish refugees.^[1]

Petzal's recent work concerns her family's displacement from Germany under the Nazi regime and the broader themes of dissent, displacement and destruction in the twentieth century and beyond.^[2]

Career

In the 1980s, Petzal worked as a journalist and arts critic for Time Out and Art Monthly.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

In 1994, she and Belinda Harding developed a plan to establish a Museum of Women's Art (MWA) in London. The plan was not implemented, though an inaugural exhibition, Reclaiming the Madonna, was held at the Economist Building that year.^[8]

From 2000 to 2007, she was an interviewer for the British Library and Tate Gallery Archive's Artists' Lives oral history project and was considered a catalyst for the 'Art Professionals' portion, recording life story interviews with curators, critics, dealers and gallery owners.^[9]

Selected solo exhibitions

Her one-person exhibitions include:

• 2015 The Dresden Project - Indelible Marks, Kreuzkirche, Dresden and Herbert Art Gallery and Museum^[10]
• 2015 75/70 The Coventry Dresden Towers, Coventry Cathedral^[11]
• 2020 Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery^[12]

Selected group exhibitions

• 2010 Originals 10, at the Mall Galleries^[13]
• 2012 Process and Innovation, British Printmaking Japan, at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (co-curator with Rebecca Salter)^[14]
• 2015 Printmakers Council, at the Bankside Gallery^[15]
• 2016 To a death in sweating wakefulness, Pie Factory Margate^[16]
• 2018 Reconciliations, The Exchange, Bush House, King's College London and The Knapp Gallery, Regent's University London^[17]
• 2020 9th International Printmaking Biennial, Douro, Portugal^[18]

Selected public collections

• Diocese, Dresden^{[citation needed]}
• Herbert Art Gallery and Museum^[13]
• Royal College of Art, London^[13]
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London^[19]
• The Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge^[20]