Monika Weiss is a transdisciplinary artist, composer, instrumentalist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. Her work has been shown extensively around the world.
Major institutional surveys, solo projects, and permanent sound installations have been realized at the Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw (2010); Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej in Orońsko (2021 and 2024–); Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile (2012–2013); Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami (2014); Museu da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portugal (2019); and Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (2024–2025). Important individual exhibitions and performances have taken place at Lehman College Art Gallery, New York (2005); Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2004); Diapason Gallery for Sound and Media, New York (2002); Remy Toledo Gallery, New York (with Carolee Schneemann, 2004) and Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal (2005, 2008 and 2013).
The artist has realized major public interventions, site-specific projects, and large-scale participatory performances around the world, including the World Financial Center Winter Garden across from Ground Zero (2006); Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), Athens (2016); Intergalerie, Potsdam (2005); Gruenberg (formerly Germany, today Zielona Góra, Poland) (2012); and the upcoming long-term public monument project Nirbhaya at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza at the United Nations gateway in New York (2027–2028). Awards include a 2026 Woman of Distinction by the New York State Assembly, 73rd District, NYFA Interdisciplinary Award (2009) and NYSCA (2023). Weiss was an Artist in Residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2005, 2009, 2017), BRIC, Brooklyn (2017), Harvestworks, New York (2018), Experimental Intermedia, New York (2001–2005), Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (2024) and A.I.R Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw (2009).
Her sound works, multi-channel video projections, audio releases, large-scale drawings and films have been featured internationally and discussed in programs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021); Goethe-Institut New York (2026); A.I.R. Gallery, New York (2022); WhiteBox, New York (2022, 2024, 2026); Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi (2015); Streaming Museum (2006, 2012, 2017 and 2026); Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami (2006, 2008); Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany (2006, 2018); Frauenmuseum, Bonn (2008); North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (2006); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2003); and Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis (2024).
Her professional archives and critical correspondence are permanently housed at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Julia P. Herzberg papers) in Washington, D.C. and at the Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej in Orońsko. Since 2011 the artist holds a full professorship at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. In 2022 Infrequent Seams released Weiss' electronic, vocal, percussion and piano music album Metamorphosis | Nirbhaya and in 2026 her Medusa: Malleus + Lethe vocal, piano, percussion and electronic music was released on BatterrieRecords.
Numerous reviews include The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, and ARTnews. Publications include several monographs (2004, 2005, 2012 and 2021) including Monika Weiss. Nirbhaya (CRP Orońsko Press) with texts by prominent art historian Griselda Pollock and The Met curator Mark McDonald. Scholarly texts include Guy Brett’s The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays on Art (2019). Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami; Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; and the Park Collection of the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.