Pip Day

Pip Day (born 1969 in the United Kingdom) is a curator and writer. She was the Director/Curator of the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art[1] in Montreal from 2012-2019.[2] She is also a contributing editor to Cabinet Magazine[3] 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[4] where she wrote on artists' initiatives in Argentina and their influence on Lippard's developing political consciousness.

She was announced as part of the Curatorial Team for 2016 SITELines a group of five international guest curators invited to present a biennial exhibition series that reimagines New Perspectives on Art of the Americas for the SITE Santa Fe Contemporary Art Center. The team includes curators Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Kathleen Ash-Milby, Pablo León de la Barra and Kiki Mazzucchelli.[5] As part of her current exhibition projects at SBC Gallery she has developed two year curatorial projects based on thematics of Sovereignty and the docu-fictional narrative of Jewish Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's novel Aqua Viva.

She also established the research collective El Instituto[6] 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."[7] 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[8] and the Patronato de Arte Contemporaneo a.c.

Day was additionally, a part of the LUMA Foundation symposium, "How Institutions Think"[9] in 2016, convened to confront best practices for museums and art galleries by sharing knowledge, institutional formats and new models for exhibition. Notable contributors included: David Beech, Luc Boltanski, Clémentine Deliss and Hans Ulrich Obrist.