Kinga Araya

Born in Poland in 1966 lives and works in Montreal and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kinga Araya’s work has been shown in numerous festivals in North America and abroad, notably at Peak Gallery, Toronto (2004), OBORO, Montreal (2004), and Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal (2002). The video Fifty-Five premiered at La Centrale, Montreal, in the summer of 2006. Araya has a master of fine arts from York University, Toronto (1998) as well as a PhD in art history and visual arts from Concordia University, Montreal (2004). She is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania.