Dimensions: 120 x 132 cm (entire)
signed and dated p.d.: 'Weiss '92'
Signed and dated on the reverse: 'Monika Weiss | 1992'
Condition
framed
Origin
DESA Unicum, 2023
private collection, Poland
Biography
Monika Weiss is a visual artist and sound composer, author of installations, drawings, films, musical pieces and sculptures. She lives in New York. She is a full professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. She studied music and visual arts. She is a member of HyphenHub, a New York-based interdisciplinary new media arts organization. Her work has been shown in more than 100 exhibitions worldwide, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Memory & Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami; the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw; Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY in New York; the Sanskriti Museum in New Delhi; and Harvestworks in New York. She is the author of public projects at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York and the Gruenberg in Zielona Gora. Other major international exhibitions include Stavros Niarchos Art Foundation, Athens; Frauenmuseum, Bonn; and North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks. Her sound installation Metamorphosis - Transformation (2021-) was shown as part of a review of Polish feminist art at A.I.R. Gallery, New York (2022) in collaboration with Lokal_30 Gallery, Warsaw, and has since been acquired for the permanent collection of the Sculpture Park at the Center for Polish Sculpture, Oronsko (2024). The recipient of numerous awards, in 2023 she received an individual award from the New York State Council on the Arts supporting her upcoming long-term public project Nirbhaya, planned for Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza near the United Nations in New York. Permanent collections include the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the CRP in Oronsko, the Frost Museum in Miami and many others.
