Monika Weiss received her Master's degree in painting and drawing from the Academy of Fine Arts , Warsaw in 1990. She has been a visiting artist at universities in Europe and the United States, including School of The Art Institute of Chicago, 2002; University of Maryland, 1999; Georgia State University School of Art and Design, 1997-98; Spelman College, 1996; and Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts, 1994-95. In New York City Weiss exhibited at the Chelsea Art Museum, 2003; El Museo del Barrio, 2003; and Diapason Gallery, 2002. Solo exhibitions include Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta,1997; BMB Gallery, Amsterdam, 1993 and 1996; and Galerie Espace Degree, Luxembourg, 1995. Her drawings are part of the permanent collection of the Albertina Museum,Vienna. She has also collaborated on conceptual sound projects, including a project with Achim Wollescheid in Acts (Selection, Frankfurt ). In 2003 her works were part of Art in General's Annual Artists' Benefit StudioTour; the Whitney Museum of American Art's Family Day; and Saatchi & Saatchi's Harlem Art Project/Ray of Light benefit auction. She is currently a member of the New York-based artists' and curators' organization Nomads + Residents. In 2005, her new long-term installation Ennoia will be featured as part of You Won't Feel a Thing, curated by Aneta Szyłak, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

contact the artist: Monika Weiss ( New York ), gniewna@mindspring.com

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EDUCATION

1984 - 1990 MFA. Painting and Drawing. Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland.
1980 - 1988 Piano and Composition. The Warsaw Conservatory, Warsaw, Poland.

COLLECTIONS
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004                 Panelist, Residencies and Independent Projects, ArtsLink, New York
since 2001        Coordinator of Adult Public Programs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1997-1998         Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta
1994-1996         Visiting Professor, Strzemiński Academy of Art, Lódź, Poland.

EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS

2005

§         Ennoia, 8-week installation and multiple performances; part of "You Won’t Feel A Thing" curated by Aneta Szylak, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2004

§         Monika Weiss Vessels, installation, sculpture, drawing; sound in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, catalogue, (solo)

2003

§         Harlem Art Project, drawings and color c-prints; part of live auction, Ray of Light Foundation benefit, curated by Jane Sutherland and Koan-Jeff Baysa, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York

§         Drawing Room /Achea Rheon, installation and 5-hour performance; part of "Family Day", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

§         Ennoia (performing water), installation and 5-hour performance; part of “The Sonic Self”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

§         Narke (sonic canvas), 20-minute performance; part of “OHM 2”, El Museo del Barrio, New York

§         Elytron (dusza i cialo to tylko dwa skrzydla)-(spirit and body are only two wings) 7-day installation and 5-hour performance, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2002

§         Ennoia, 1-day installation and 6-hour performance; sound in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, Diapason Gallery, New York, (solo)

§         Rysując ciałem, rysując dźwiękiem (drawing with body, drawing with sound), sound-specific body drawing, 1-hour performance in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello, Diapason Gallery , New York

§         Abiding. Próba Wody, 9-minute video performance, sound in collaboration with Alison Lune; part of “I/O #3: Skin”, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco

1999

§         Abiding. Próba Wody (Trial by Water), 9-minute video performance; sound in collaboration with Alison Lune, University of Maryland, Washington, D.C., (solo)

§         Heaven/Heathenly Bodies, sound performance in collaboration with Jamie Guggino and Jeff Surak, Takoma Park Planetarium, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD

§         Act, Selection, sound installation and recording with Achim Wollescheid, Frankfurt , Germany

1998

§         Koiman, site-specific installation, Space 1181, Atlanta , (solo)

§         Saint Sebastian, photographic installation, BMB Gallery, Art Fair in Zurich

1997

§         Saint Sebastian from Atlanta, installation, Nexus Press Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, (solo)

1996

§         3 vrouwen, 3 naties, 3 visies: Monika Weiss, Ulrike Hogrebe en Liselotte Schut, BMB Gallery, Amsterdam ,

§         Untitled Drawings, The Rialto Theater, Atlanta, (solo)

§         Het oog van de Verzamelaar V, BMB Gallery, Amsterdam

1995

§         Apres mois, drawings installation, Galerie Art Angle Contemporain, Centre de L’Art Contemporain, Saint Paul-Trois-Chateaux , France (solo)

§         Exposition d'Art Polonais: Monika Weiss, collages on wall, oil paintings. Galerie Espace Degree , Luxembourg (solo)

1994

§         Untitled, drawings installation, Galeria Pokaz, Warsaw, Poland (solo)

1993

§         Monika Weiss en Christian Caburet, drawings on paper, oil paintings, collages. BMB Gallery, Amsterdam

1990

§         Monika Weiss - Dessain Drawings, collages. Galerie Joanna Vermeer, Paris (solo)

1989

§         Monika Weiss Drawing, collage. Galerie Laurens A. Daane, Amsterdam (solo)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

§         Pennina Barnett "Performing the Drawing"; William Anastasi & Monika Weiss "Baptism of Water: Conversation on Ennoia"; George Quasha "Conceiving Body: Remarks on the site/Elytron (spirit and body are only two wings)", in book in conjunction with exhibition Monika Weiss: Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2004

§         Cathy Byrd, "Water World", Creative Loafing, Atlanta, December 2000, p. 21

§         Jerry Cullum, "Monika Weiss - Koiman", Sculpture, Vol. 18, No. 3, Chicago, April 1999, pp. 5, 72, 73

§         Rafał Księżyk, "Warszawska Jesionka", Machina, Warsaw, Poland, December 1999, pp. 8, 9

§         Cathy Byrd, "Sara Hornbacher - Altered States, Monika Weiss - Koiman", Art Papers, Atlanta , March/April 1999, pp. 3, 46, 47

§         Cathy Bird, "Toxic Ritual", Artnet.com, Reviews, New York, November 1998

§         Cathy Byrd, "Site Specific", Creative Loafing, Atlanta, November 1998, p. 211

§         Jason Forest , "Savvy Koiman", The Atlanta Journal/Constitution, November 1998, p.8

§         Cathy Byrd, "Press the Flesh", Creative Loafing, Atlanta, April 1997, pp. 1, 26, 30

§         Marek Gozdziewski, "Monika Weiss. Works on Paper", catalogue essay, Warsaw , Poland , May 1995, pp. 2, 4

§         Ina Nattrot "Intensitat det Kontraste, Monika Weiss in der Galerie Espace Degree", Louxembourger Word, Louxemburg, June, 1995, p. 3

§         Eddy van der Meer, "Christian Caburet en Monika Weiss", Alert, Galerie Agenda Amsterdam , Amsterdam, January 1994, pp. 1, 30, 37

§         "Monika Weiss - Galeria Brama", Exit. Nowa Sztuka w Polsce, Warsaw, Poland, No. 1 (9) 1992, p. 366

§         Sarenco, "Originalia" Monika Weiss", Verona VOCE, Vol. II nr. 12/16, Verona, Italy, November 1990, p. 78

§         Saskia Monshouwer, "Monika Weiss", Kunst Beeld" Tijdchrift Voor Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam , September 1989, pp.3, 50, 51

VISITING ARTIST

§         2002: Ground, Research In Experimental Architecture (RIEA.ch), Lebbeus Woods Studio, New York
§         1999: University of Maryland, Comparative Literature Program, Washington, D.C.
§         1998: Visiting Artist and Portfolio Comity Instructor, Georgia State University School of Art and       Design,Atlanta
§         1997: Armstrong Atlantic State University, Department of Art and Music, Savannah
§         1996: Visiting Artist and Guest Professor, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta
§         1996: Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Spelman College, Atlanta
§         1995: Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Strzeminski Academy of Art, Lódz, Poland