Biography
Sam Mogelonsky is a Toronto-based artist, curator, designer and arts professional. She holds a BFAH from Queen’s University and an MFA from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design. Sam is the Director of Arts, Culture and Heritage for the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and works with the
Kultura Collective, a network of contemporary Toronto-based Jewish Arts, Culture and Heritage organizations. In addition, Mogelonsky specializes in promoting the visual arts, combining her art-world wisdom with her marketing and design acumen. She has worked with arts organizations including The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Northumberland. Mogelonsky has curated for the Hazelton Hotel, the William Vale Hotel, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, The Art Gallery of Peterborough, the McIntosh Gallery, The Reach Gallery and the Art Gallery of Northumberland. In her artistic practice, Sam’s painstakingly obsessive sculptures use embellishment to speak to notions of craft production and decoration, while also engaging the dialogue between the mass-produced and the handmade. She has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
