Born in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in New York City.

Selected Recent Solo Exhibitions:

2007
“Between Body and History: Recent Works”, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal

2006
“Limen II” curated by Florence Neal, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York

Leukos-Early Morning Light, with Kaarina Kaikonnen, curated by Julia P. Herzberg, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York

2005
“Monika Weiss: Five Rivers. Installation, drawing, performance, video and sound 1999-2005”, curated by Susan Hoeltzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York

“Miedzy Obecnoscia i Pamiecia Performatywna” curated by Aneta Szylak, Instytut Sztuki WYSPA, Gdansk

“Phlegethon-Milczenie”, curated by Erik Bruinenberg, Inter-Galerie, Potsdam

2004
“Intervals”, with Carolee Schneemann, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York

“Monika Weiss: Vessels. Installation, drawing, sculpture”, curated by Nina Colosi, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2002
“Ennoia”, with Stephen Vitiello, curated by Michael J. Schumacher, Diapason Gallery, New York

Selected Recent Group Exhibitions:

2008
“The Prisoner's Dilemma” curated by Leanne Mella, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO, Miami

“Wa[h]re Kunst” curated by Georgi Begun, ConcentArt, Berlin

“Frauen bei Olympia” curated by Gudrun Angelis, FrauenMuseum, Bonn

“Kraj” curated by Marek Bartelik, Galeria Sztuki Wspòlczesnej, Opole

“Digital & Video Art” DIVA, Remy Toledo Projects, New York

“Www.women” curated by Julie Oakes, Headbones Gallery, Toronto

2007
“You Won't Feel a Thing: On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia and Rituality” curated by Aneta Szylak, WYSPA Art Institute, Gdansk

“Loneliness and Melancholy” curated by Susan Classen-Sullivan and Pawel Wojtasik, Hans Weiss New Space Gallery, MCC, Manchester

2006
“Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand” curated by Barbara Hatfield and Hanne Tierney, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks

“Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art” curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Cisneros Fontenals Art Foundation, Miami

“POZA, On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art” curated by Marek Bartelik, Real Art Ways, Hartford

“Spirit of Discovery” curated by Emanuel Pimenta, The Facto Foundation For The Arts, Sciences and Technology - Observatory, Trancoso

“Codes of Culture” curated by Nina Colosi, ArteBA, Buenos Aires

2005
“Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers” curated by Christiane Mennicke, Kunsthaus Dresden

2003
“OHM 2, a performance in frequency” curated by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, El Museo del Barrio, New York

Invited Lectures:

2008
“Horos and other playgrounds” part of "Homo Ludens Ludens--Locating play in contemporary culture and society" LABoral Centre for Art and Industrial Creation (Gijon, Spain)

2007
“Anamnesis” part of "Reasearching the Future: Aspects of Art and Technoetics" Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

"Monika Weiss-Between Presence and Memory. Recent Drawings and videos" Loughborough University, England

"Horos" film screening and artist talk, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

2006
"Dialogiques: Monika Weiss" moderated by Dr. Norman Cornett, McGill University, Montreal

2005
"Monika Weiss - Recent Projects" YADDO Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs

"Between Presence and Performative Memory" with Maria Riskova, APEXART, New York

"Monika Weiss: Five Rivers," the City and the Humanities, Lehman College, Bronx, NY

"Monika Weiss: Visiting Artist" Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, Poland

2004
"Monika Weiss: Drawing the City," Artist Talk, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York

"An Evening with Schneemann and Weiss" with Carolee Schneemann, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York

"Monika Weiss: Vessels," moderated by Nathalie Angles, Location One, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2002
"Spaces Around Body. Notes on Repetition, Ritual and Silence" The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, Chicago

2001
"Displacements/Migrations, Monika Weiss & Alex Rivera" Nomads+Residents at Sixteen Beavers, New York

Selected Publications:

"Interview with Monika Weiss" by Julia P.Herzberg in "POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art", Real Art Ways, D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 2008

"You won't feel a thing: on panic, obsession, rituality and anesthesia (Gebundene Ausgabe)" Aneta Szylak, Kunstahaus Dresden/Wyspa Institute of Art, Verbrecher Verlag, 2007

"Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art", Tracey/Loughborough University, UK, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2007

Henry Lehmann "Changing to one's humanity over time-Entre le corps et l'histoire: œuvres récentes de Monika Weiss", Montreal Gazette, June 2007

Elisa Turner "Upgrading her MAC-Ella Cisneros Collection", Artnews, March, 2007

Janet Batet "Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art at Art Basel", ArtNexus, March 2007, pp. 154-155

"Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art", Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Mami, FL, December 2006

"Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers. Reflexionen zeitgenössischer Kunst zur Aktualität des Erinnerns (Broschiert)", Christiane Mennicke and Silke Wagler ,Verbrecher Verlag October 2006

Mark Mirko "The Artist's Body of Work", The Hartford Courant, 11.02.2006

"Grounded Drawing: Kentler International Drawing Space presents the work of Monika Weiss", Courier Life Publications, 10.12.2006

Deborah Hornblow "Exploring Roots in 'POZA'", The Hartford Courant, 10.27.2006

Monika Branicka "Zaklinacze paniki", Bunkier Sztuki Teksty, 09.20.2006

Adam Mazur "Nawet nic nie poczujesz: o drezdenskiej wystawie Anety Szylak, Obieg, 10.12.2006

Uwe Salzbrenner "Wie echt sind unsere Gefuhle Kultur," Sachisische Zeitung, 10.12.06

Tomasz Konart "Performance, Internet, sztuka. (Do czego potrzebny jest Internet," Obieg, 10.04.2006

Carol Damian "Kaarina Kaikonnen and Monika Weiss, Remy Toeldo Gallery" ARTnews, June 2006

Einat Rosenwasser "Arte y foto, de la mano", La Revista Nueva, 03.10.2006

Aneta Szylak "Between Presence and Performative Memory. Conversation with Monika Weiss", Panoptikon Magazyn, Warsaw, Poland, December 2005

Benjamin Genocchio "An Artist Whose Performance Delivers", The New York Times, December 18, 2005

"Monika Weiss: Five Rivers", Polish Radio, New York, interview, December 17, 2005

"Monika Weiss, Featured Artist, OmniArt, Art Miami Basel", interview with Tina Spiro, NBC 6, South Florida Today, December 2, 2005

Aneta Szylak, "Polish art and its context. The insight into artistic, curatorial and institutional practices in contemporary Poland," Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz, September 2005

Gay Brett "Time Being," catalogue essay, "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers," London, September 2005

Perry Bard "Negotiating Time," Afterimage, New York, May 2005

James D. Campbell "Drawing on Syncope: The Performativity of Rapture in the Art of Monika Weiss," catalogue essay, "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers," Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, Editions Lallouz, Montreal, June 2005

Jane Sims "Video Artists in Dialogue at HVCCA", Arts News, Westchester Arts Council, New York, April 2005

Agata Rogos "Dusza i cialo to tylko dwa skrzydla: Monika Weiss – o ciele zniewolonym przez umys; czy odwrotnie" (Spirit and Body Are Only Two Wings: Monika Weiss – about the body enslaved by mind; or the other way around), Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland, April 2005

Arno Neumann "Phlegethon-Milczenie. Kunst von Monika Weiss in der Inter-Galerie," Potsdamer Stadtkurier/Kulturi, Potsdam, Germany, March 2005

Lore Bardens, "Die Kraft der Performance. Monika Weiss in der Inter-Galerie. Sich stetig verandernde Installation," Kultur/Potsdamer Neuste Nachrichteni, Potsdam, Germany, March 2005

Andre Seleanu "Le Project de L"Art Actuel", Vie des Arts, Montreal, February 2005

Lennie Varvarides "Intervals: Without Interruption," New York Arts Magazine, January 2005

Annamirl Weishaupl "Reisenotizen, New York City", framework-online.de, October,2004

Ewa Kara "Body as a Metaphysical Space," Nowy Dziennik, New York, November 2004

Amy Sara Clark "Living inside the Lines," The Journal News, Purchase, New York, August 2004

William Anastasi "Baptism of Water: Conversation on Ennoia," exhibition catalogue text, pp. 14-19 in Monika Weiss – Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2003

Pennina Barnett "Performing the Drawing" catalogue preface essay, pp. 1-2 in Monika Weiss – Vessels, London, 2003

George Quasha "Conceiving Body: Remarks on the side/Elytron (spirit and body are only two wings)," exhibition catalogue essay, pp. 6-12 in Monika Weiss – Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York 2003