MONIKA WEISS Born in Warsaw, Poland. Lives and works in New York City. Monika Weiss is a Polish-American artist whose transdisciplinary approach investigates relationships between body and history, and evokes ancient rituals of lamentation. Her digital films, installations, public projects, performances, drawings, objects and musical compositions combine minimalist and poetic approach with socially engaged and complex narratives. SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS Monika Weiss: Sustenazo (Lament II), The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, 2014. Monika Weiss-Sustenazo (Lament II), Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile, 2012/2013. Monika Weiss: Shrouds (Całuny), BWA/Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej, Zielona Góra, Poland, 2012. Monika Weiss & Alan Sondheim: Enunciation, EYEBEAM Art & Technology Center, New York, 2012. Monika Weiss: Sustenazo, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, 2010. Monika Weiss-Expulsion, Concentart, Berlin, 2009. Drawing Lethe, World Financial Center Winter Garden /The Drawing Center, New York, 2006. Monika Weiss: Five Rivers, Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, 2005/2006. Phlegethon-Milczenie, Inter-Galerie, Potsdam, Germany, 2005. Monika Weiss: Vessels, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2004. Monika Weiss: Intervals, with Carolee Schneemann, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, 2004. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS A Spectator on the Stands of History, (Art) Amalgamated, New York, 2013. A John Cage Centennial Tribute, Streaming Museum, New York, 2012. The Sixth Borough, No Longer Empty & Governors Island, New York, 2010. Opening, Muzeum Montanelli, Prague, 2009 - 2010. The Prisoner's Dilemma. How Artists Respond to the Exercise of Power in Contemporary Life, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, 2008 - 2009. Wa(h)re Kunst, Concentart, Berlin, 2008 – February 4, 2009. Frauen bei Olympia, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany, 2008. You Won't Feel a Thing, WYSPA Instytut Sztuki, Gdańsk, Poland, 2007. Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, 2007. Moment by Moment: Meditations of the Hand, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 2007. POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, 2007. Codes of Culture: Video Art From Seven Continents, arteBA 2006. 15 Feria de Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, 2006. Von der Abwesenheit des Lagers, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, 2006. AWARDS & HONORS Chilean Ministry of Culture, Museum of Memory and Human Rights Individual Exhibition Grant Polish Embassy in Chile, Museum of Memory and Human Rights Individual Exhibition Grant, 2012. United States Embassy in Poland, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Individual Exhibition Grant, 2010. YADDO, Saratoga Springs, New York, Residency Fellowship, 2009. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle AIR Laboratory, Warsaw, Artist Residency Fellowship, 2009. New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA Interdisciplinary Category, Individual Fellowship, 2009. Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Individual Exhibition Grant, 2009. Winter Garden Arts, World Financial Center, New York, Public Project Commission, 2006 The Facto Foundation, Trancoso, Portugal, Residency Fellowship, 2006. New York State Council for the Arts, Individual Exhibition New Media Grant, 2005. Philip Guston and Musa McKim Residency, YADDO, Saratoga Springs, Residency, 2005. JP Morgan Chase Foundation, Lehman College Art Gallery, Individual Exhibition Grant, 2005. Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, Residency Fellowship, 2001-2005. SELECTED BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS 2014/RECALL: Monika Weiss & Roland Schefferski, Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej and BWA, Zielona Góra, Polish/German/English. 2012/Monika Weiss: Sustenazo (Lament II). Ed. Julia Herzberg. Santiago, Chile: Museo de la Memoria y Los Derechos Humanos, Spanish/English. 2008/Herzberg, Julia P. Monika Weiss in “POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art”. Ed. Marek Bartelik, Real Art Ways, Hartford, D.A.P. 2007/Downs, Simon. The Thought of Drawing in “Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art”, London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 2006/Monika Weiss: Five Rivers. Ed. Susan Hoeltzel. New York: Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, English/French. Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia. Histories Retold in “Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art", Miami: CIFO. SELECTED REVIEWS 2014/ Kropiowski, Łukasz. Długość Cugli Wyznacza średnicę Areny, Magazyn Szum. 2013/Santos, Juan José. Sustenazo (Lament II) - Monika Weiss. Arte al Dia International. Dela-Kropiowska, Agnieszka. On Lament that Questions Language, ARTPUNKT. 2012/Laborde, Miguel. A Lament in The Public Square. La Panera. 2010/Jastrzębska, Patrycja. Sustenazo: Monika Weiss. OBIEG. Oelschläger, Volker. Chorus of Lamentation, Märkische Allgemeine. 2009/Cornett, Norman F. Monika Weiss-Marginalia. Esse: Arts + Opinions, issue 66. 2008/Batet, Janet, Forms of Classification, ARTNEXUS. Lehman, Henry. Clinging to one’s humanity over time/Monika Weiss. Montreal Gazette. 2006/Damian, Carol. Monika Weiss & Kaarina Kaikkonen. ARTNEWS. Rosenwasser, Einat. Art and Photography of the Hand. La Revista Nueva. 2005/Genocchio, Benjamin. An Artist Whose Performance Delivers. The New York Times. .