MONIKA WEISS
MONIKA WEISS
Internationally celebrated Polish-American artist Monika Weiss has had numerous solo museum exhibitions, including the 2005 retrospective at the Lehman College Art Gallery (CUNY) Five Rivers, as well as Sustenazo, commissioned by the CCA Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw, Poland (2010), later travelling to the Museum of Memory & Human Rights, Santiago, Chile (2012-2013) and the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2014). Recent publications on Weiss’s work include the monograph Monika Weiss-Nirbhaya (2021) by Griselda Pollock, et al., and Guy Brett’s The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays on Art (2019). In 2016 Robert Storr invited Weiss to participate in Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, an exhibition of video works by 50 artists representing 29 countries, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens. As part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art series Artists on Artworks, a film featuring Weiss premiered on April 6, 2021. In it, the artist shares her insights on Francisco Goya, and reflects on her own transdisciplinary practice, which investigates relationships between the body and history and evokes rituals of lamentation in response to tragedy.
