Mona Brody
Mona Brody is a painter and Professor of Art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Art, an MS in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA in printmaking from Moore College of Art and Design.
Brody’s work draws meaning from the nexus between imagination and the human condition. Its relationship between nature, abstraction, and materiality cannot be separated from the conditions of one’s life.
Brody has exhibited both in the United States and internationally. Her solo exhibitions include The Painting Center, New York, NY, The President’s Gallery, Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Utica College, Utica, NY, Kent State University, North Canton, Ohio, the Montclair Art Museum Montclair, NJ, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ. Nanjing College of Art, Nanjing, China, and Boleslawiec Art Museum, Boleslawiec, Poland.
Public collections that own her work include The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ. Boleslawiec Art Museum, Boleslawiec, Poland, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA and the Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ.
Brody’s fellowships and honors include Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ, Geraldine Dodge Foundation Artist Fellowships, The 33rd International Sculpture Symposium, Boleslawiec, Poland, and the 2015 Distinguished Alumna Award in Recognition of accomplishments in the Visual Arts, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA. Brody was nominated for the 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant.
Website: monabrody.com
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