Monica Lundy is an Italian American artist whose mixed media paintings and drawings are based on in-depth research conducted internationally at archives and museums. With the intention of unearthing stories forgotten in time, her work commemorates places and people who...
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Monica
Lundy is an Italian American artist whose mixed media paintings and drawings
are based on in-depth research conducted internationally at archives and
museums. With the intention of unearthing stories forgotten in time, her work commemorates
places and people who have been historically marginalized: psychiatric hospital
patients, prison inmates, sex workers, and a host of other lost, forgotten
souls. She has researched in London at Wellcome
Library Archives and Manuscripts Collection as well as Bethlem Museum of the
Mind, In Washington DC at The
Smithsonian Institution, in California at The California State Archives, San Francisco History Center, and The National Park Service Archives, and
in Rome at Santa Maria della Pietà
Archives, among other locations. With
an emphasis on site-specific installation painting, Lundy’s work utilizes
non-traditional painting media, such as liquid porcelain, rusted steel and an
ephemeral painting process that utilizes terra cotta clay applied directly to
the wall. Her site-specific installations have been exhibited on Alcatraz
Island, Golden Gate Park (San Francisco), Montalvo Arts Center, de Saisset
Museum, the Mandrione district (Rome) and Rome’s historic, decommissioned
psychiatric hospital Santa Maria della
Pietà. Other notable exhibitions include: Nancy Toomey Fine Art (San
Francisco); Turner Carroll Gallery (Santa Fe); Walter Maciel Gallery (Los
Angeles); San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; San Jose Institute of
Contemporary Art; Berkeley Arts Center; and Museo Laboratorio della Mente (Rome).
Lundy holds an MFA in painting from Mills
College (2010) and a BFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago (1996). She has been the recipient of an Irvine Fellowship, San
Francisco Arts Commission Grant and the Jay DeFeo Award and has been an artist
in residence at the American Academy in Rome, Montalvo Arts Center’s Lucas
Artist Program and Stoney Road Press (Dublin).
She
is the subject of a recent monograph, Monica
Lundy, edited by Giuliana Benassi and published by Silvana Editoriale (2022).
