December 14, 2012

Monika Weiss (US)

Monika Weiss is a visual and sound artist based in New York City, whose work has been exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions internationally. Weiss’ performative installations, video/sound works, sculptures and drawings enact historical and cultural memory in the context of body, gesture, trace, and language. In 2005, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, organized and published a survey of the artist’s work to date, Monika Weiss: Five Rivers, which was reviewed in The New York Times. In 2010 Monika Weiss-Sustenazo was presented by Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland and will be on view at Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago, Chile, 2012-2013. Weiss’ work is represented by Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal. The artist’s own writing appeared in New Realities: Being Syncretic, Springer, Wien/New York (2009) and Technoetic Arts, Intellect, London (2006). Educated first as a classical musician and pianist, Weiss continues to compose sound environments in her work.