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Education
2010 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
1996 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Awards, Grants, Fellowships and Residencies
2020 Artist in Residence, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA.
2018 Artist in Residence, The Growlery, San Francisco, CA.
2017 Visiting Artists and Scholars Program, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.
2016 Artist in Residence, Stoney Road Press, Dublin, Ireland.
2015 San Francisco Arts Commission Grant, SFAC, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Irvine Fellowship, Lucas Artist Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2010 Jay DeFeo Award, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
2022 RAMO (Ritrato A Mano), Caramanico Terme, Abruzzo, Italy.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Asylumscapes: Studies on Sites of Memory, Curated by Giuliana Benassi, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.
2021 Physiognomy of the Abandoned, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2019 La Perdità del Futuro: Vite nel Santa Maria della Pietà (The Loss of the Future: Lives Inside Santa Maria della Pietà), Curated by Giuliana Benassi, Museo Laboratorio della Mente, Rome, Italy.
2018 Deviance: Women in the Asylum During the Fascist Regime, Nancy Toomey Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2013 House of the Strange Women, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.
Selected Two Person Exhibitions
2018 Dentro di Noi, Fuori di Noi (Inside of Us, Outside of Us), curated by Giuliana Benassi, L’ARCA- Laboratorio per le Arti Contemporanee, Teramo, Italy.
2016 Untethered: Stories of the Fillmore District, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.
2011 Invisible Categories: Invisible People, Alcatraz Cell House Gallery, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Women In the House, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2021 There is No Place Like Home / Rome: Mandrione, Curated by Giuliana Benassi, Rome, Italy.
2021 Renegades: Women Ahead of Their Time, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2020 Solstice: Create Art for Earth, curated by Judy Chicago and Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2020 Beauty in Lockdown, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.
2020 Burned: Women and Fire, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2019 Can’t Lock Me Up: Women Resist Silence, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2018 Art and Activism: Drawing the Line, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY.
2017 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA.
2017 Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2017 With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 I.D., Please!, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2016 Next New Paper, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
2016 Gold Rush, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA.
2015 Botanica Poetica: New Work by Lucas Artist Fellows, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA.
2015 Suggestive Role Play, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2015 The Battery Art Show Volume 7, The Battery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 A New Deal: Continuing the Legacy of Maritime Art in the Park, San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Views from the Edge: Women, Gender and Politics, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI.
2013 History’s Mortar: Ambition, Fort Point, San Francisco, CA
2013 Bay Area Currents, Curated by Michael Schwager, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA.
2012 Honoring Women’s Rights, National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA.
2011 Alcatraz Symposium on Justice and Freedom, New Industries Building, Alcatraz Island, San Francisco, CA.
2011 California! Curated by Svea Lin Soll and Chandra Cerrito, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA.
2011 Cream from the Top, Curated by Kathryn Weller Renfrow, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
2024 Look Up to the Sky: Hung Liu’s Legacy of Mentoring Women Artists, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA.
2024 Blasfemme, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
Artists’ Monographs
2023 Monica Lundy, edited by Giuliana Benassi, Silvana Editoriale, 2023.
Selected Publications
2024 KQED Arts & Culture- Your Guide to Visual Art at the New Year’s Start: ‘Look Up to the Sky: Hung Liu’s Legacy of Mentoring Women Artists’, Sarah Hotchkiss, 1/4/24
2023 Square Cylinder- 4 Paintings I Like, by David M. Roth, 4/22/23
2023 Visual Art Source- Selected Gallery and Museum Exhibitions Throughout the Western US: Week of March 29,2023, (feature)
2023 Weber: The Contemporary West- Painting Matters and the Undoing of Erasure and Silence, (feature & interview), edited by Michael Wutz, Weber State University, Spring 2023
2022 Segno- Ritratto a Mano 7.0: Workshop / Residenza a Caramanico Terme, by Niccolò Giacomazzi, Estate 2022
2022 48hills: Independent San Francisco news + culture- Monica Lundy Paints Forgotten Histories and Overlooked Individuals (feature), by Mary Corbin, 2/22/22
2022 Now Be Here Art- Monica Lundy, (feature), by Kim Schoenstadt, July 2022
2021 Exhibition catalogue- Monica Lundy: Physiognomy of the Abandoned, edited by Jeffery Kuiper, Turner Carroll Gallery
2021 Artriubune- Tre Giorni d’Arte al Mandrione di Roma con There Is No Place Like Home, by Redazione, (Rome, Italy)
2021 Santa Fe New Mexican / Pasatiempo: The New Mexican Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment and Culture- Institutional Anguish: ‘Physiognomy of the Abandoned’, by Michael Abatemarco, 11/5/21
2021 Exibart- There Is No Place Like Home: Intervista a Giuliana Benassi, by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, November 2021 (Rome, Italy)
2021 KQED- Hung Liu Devoted Her Career to Remembering Others, Now the Art World Remembers Her, by Chloe Veltman, 8/24/21
2021 Albuquerque Journal- Ahead of Her Time: Exhibit Looks at the Creative Voices of Acclaimed Women Artists, by Kathleen Roberts, 3/22/21
2020 Santa Fe New Mexican / Pasatiempo: The New Mexican Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment and Culture- Burn It All Down, by Jennifer Levinm 3/6/20
2020 Exhibition catalogue- Burned: Women and Fire, edited by Jeffery Kuiper, Turner Carroll Gallery
2020 Aetemporary Journal- Monica Lundy, (feature), edited by Giovanna Felluga 2/6/20
2019 Exhibition Catalogue- Can’t Lock Me Up: Women Resist Silence, edited by Jeffery Kuiper, Turner Carroll Gallery
2019 Montalvo Arts Center Blog- This Week In My Studio: Monica Lundy, 2/18/19
2018 Libero Quotidiano- In Mostra I Volti e le Lettere delle Signore Libertine Rinchiuse in Manicomio, by Giuliana Benassi
2018 Square Cylinder- Best of 2018, by David M. Roth, 12/22/18
2018 Wall Street International Magazine- Deviance, 8/22/18
2018 Visual Art Source- Editor’s Roundtable: When Artists Play with Fire, by Richard Speer, 10/12/18
2018 San Francisco Chronicle- Monica Lundy examines ‘Deviance’ at Nancy Toomey Fine Art, by Charles Desmarais, 10/8/18
2108 San Francisco Chronicle- At Galleries and at Trails Forever Stories- and Nature- Shared, by Leah Garchik, 10/3/18
2018 Square Cylinder- Monica Lundy @ Nancy Toomey, by David M. Roth, 8/29/18
2017 San Francisco Chronicle- American Flag of Immigrant Portraits, by Sam Whiting, 3/30/17
2017 PBS NewsHour- At LA Art Show, Immigrant Portraits Draw Record Attendance, by Kelly Whalen and Sarah Hotchkiss, 2/15/17.
2017 KQED Arts- Portraits of an Immigrant-Filled Nation at Walter Maciel Gallery, Sarah Hotchkiss and Kelly Whalen, 2/8/17
2017 Visual Art Source- With Liberty and Justice for Some, by Simone Kussatz, 2/2/17
2017 Visual Art Source- Editorial Feature: The Real Inauguration Day, by Bill Lasarow, 2/2/17
2017 The Huffington Post- Artists Mobilize: With Liberty and Justice for Some…An Exhibition Honoring Immigrants, by Amy Pleasant, 1/19/17
2016 Square Cylinder- Monica Lundy & Rodney Ewing @ Nancy Toomey, by Maria Porges, 11/3/16
2016 The New Fillmore- The Fillmore’s History of Displacement, by Lucy Gray, 10/26/16
2014 ARTNews- Monica Lundy, by Richard Speer, January 2014 edition
2013 Square Cylinder- Monica Lundy @ Toomey Tourell, by David M. Roth, 10/26/13
2013 SFGate- Monica Lundy: Obscure old SFPD mug shots reborn, by Kenneth Baker, 10/23/13
2013 SF Weekly- Redeeming the Mugshot: Monica Lundy Confronts the Sex Workers of Yore, by Jonathan Curiel, 10/23/13
2013 East Bay Express- A Subjective Snapshot of Bay Area Art, by Alex Bigman, 7/24/13
2011 SF Examiner- Cherchez La Femme: Women in the Arts, by Nancy Ewart, 1/2/11
2010 Willamette Week- Best of 2010, by Richard Speer, 12/29/10
2010 Visual Art Source- Editor’s Pick This Week: Monica Lundy, 8/25/10
2010 The Huffington Post- This Week’s Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S., 8/17/10
2010 Willamette Week- Visual Art / WW Pick, by Richard Speer, 8/4/10
2010 The San Francisco Chronicle- State of the Artist, by JD Beltran, 5/12/10
Selected Public Collections
MILLS College Art Museum, Oakland, CA.
Museum Laboratory of the Mind, Santa Maria della Pietà, Rome, Italy
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA.
The Battery SF, San Francisco, CA.
White Rock Vineyards, Napa, CA.
Selected Lectures
2017 Stories Untold: Portraits from the Asylum, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK.
2017 Taco Talk with Artist Monica Lundy; Sanctuary City: With Liberty and Justice for Some, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Speakers Series: Monica Lundy, California State Archives, Sacramento, CA.
Workshops
2022 Ritrato A Mano, Workshop and artist in residence, Caramanico Terme, Abruzzo, Italy
2016 Guest Artist, Beginning Drawing, California College of Art, Oakland, CA.
2015 Drawing from Nature, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA.
Professional Affiliations
Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Stoney Road Press, Dublin, Ireland.