ArtistJohn Monti

John Monti (b. in Portland, OR) received a BS from Portland State University and an MFA from the Pratt Institute. Monti has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally both in museums and galleries and has completed public commissions and set-designs for dance.  Exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center, White Columns, Artists Space, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Curt Marcus Gallery, and Grace Borgenicht Gallery in NYC; Whitney Museum, CT, Islip Art Museum, NY, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, NC, Pence Gallery, CA and the Wakita Museum of Art, Karuizawa, Japan. His work is included in major private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Yale University Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Israel Museum, Israel and the Wakita Museum of Art, Japan.  Grants and Fellowships include the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Tiffany Foundation, the Pollack Krasner Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.  Reviews and press articles have appeared in Arts, Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, Sculpture and The Los Angeles Times among others.

“My sculpture utilizes decorative, pop and minimalist strategies that both critique and embrace aspects of pleasure and the commercial aesthetic. Cast-rubber and fiberglass are donned in high-key colors that are adapted from products.  My sculpture is highly refined, slick and intended to comment on the commercial/aesthetic cues of seduction and the failed utopian vision that engendered them.”

Monti is currently a Professor of Sculpture at the Pratt Institute and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. View more of his work at his website.