Mónica Laiseca is a mother, curator and educator based in Glasgow.

Mónica has worked with numerous artists, spanning different generations and levels of practice, including Esther Ferrer, Sandra Johnston, Anne Collier, Ines Schaber, Redmond Entwistle and Ruth Proctor. She is the author of a monograph on art and politics in Spain in the 1960s (published by CSIC, Madrid, 2006).

Mónica is working increasingly on themes of imagination and inclusion, radical performance and its legacy, the Embedded Artist, arts practice under the contemporary context of austerity, and the reframing of international conversations in post-Brexit UK. Recent project include: Minimal/Poor/Present - a collaboration between Spanish live-art pioneer Esther Ferrer and five UK-based artists (GI 2018, co-curated with Fritz Welch); setting up an artist placement opportunity with Scottish Government for artists living in Scottish islands (2019-20, with Susan Brind); helping develop and run Mutual Playing Ground, an experimental performance workshop for young people in Govanhill led by Rumpus Room (2020); and Night Studies, a curatorial platform that proposes to draw together communities of artists in Scotland and Iberia through an exploration of the night as time-space of liminal encounters (pilot year 2020-21, with Nuno Sacramento).

Mónica has held curatorial roles at Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool), Belfast Exposed (Belfast), Instituto Cervantes (Tokyo) and the University of East Anglia (Norwich). Since 2014 Mónica co-convenes the MLitt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) programme, jointly run between The Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow.