Working within a process reflective of life experiences, Monica embraces accidental and incidental moments; allowing herself to be guided by material. In doing so, she has come to realise that she is always seeking the catalyst or disruption and has embraced the transformative nature of the elements as potential collaborators in her practice. Her decisions are therefore an adaptation or acquiescence to circumstance as she navigates between anxiety and optimism; chaos and control.
“…All things in nature must adapt to the uncontrollable elements forced upon them and I am seeking to capture that which is on the verge of either renewal or collapse. Amid the relentless story of progress and the ever-changing state of all things, I look to nature for signs of hope; of a promise of return.”
EDUCATION
2019 MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2005 BFA, with distinction, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020
Qube Arts Open, Qube Gallery, Oswestry, Shropshire
Solo Exhibition, To the Trees, SUPA Gallery, Birmingham (Online)
The Collector’s Eye, LEMA Mobili, London
Retrograde, The Old Print Works, Birmingham (Postponed)
2019
Studio Visit, No. 20 Arts, London
Orbit Graduates Art Show, London
Limbo, Slade School of Fine Art, London
MFA degree show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
Raw Materials: Plastics, Nunnery Gallery/ Bow Arts, London
Distant Heres, The Stone Space, London
How Are You, Babe?, Blank 100, London
Nomenclature of Colours, Slade Research Centre, London
2018
Dark to Light, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield
Sammelwut, Nijmegen
Slade Interim Show, London
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells
Beep Painting Prize, Swansea
Liquitex White Walls Mural, London
The Field, ASC Gallery, London
2017
Thuyskamer, Amsterdam
2015
Solo Exhibition, Rob Radamaker Gallery, Utrecht
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019
Slade Summer School Art Education Residency
2018
Merzbarn, Lake District
TFAC Residency, The Griffin Gallery, London
2002
All College Honors Nomination, California College of the Arts, San Francisco/ Oakland
2001
“Cutting Edge” Award, James Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento
2000
“Cutting Edge” Award, James Kaneko Gallery, Sacramento
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Exhibition | Monica Perez Vega: ‘To the Trees,’ Ruth Millington. 25 July 2020
Average Art, Issue #44, March 2020
Chic Chats #27: Monica Perez Vega, Lawfully Chic. 5 Aug. 2019
Raw Materials: PLASTICS, May 2019
WOTISART?, issue #11, Feb. 2018
Novelty Magazine, Issue #11, March 2018
Fresh Paint Magazine, issue #9, Oct. 2015
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