Originally from
Brodnica, Poland, she earned her B.F.A. from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and
Design. She continued studies at Purdue University, where she earned an M.A.,
followed with an M.F.A from the Tyler
School of Art, Temple University. While at Tyler, she spent a year studying in
Rome, Italy.
She has completed
residencies at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Connecticut, the
Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, the Cork Printmakers in Ireland and the
Women's Studio
Workshop in New
York. Solo exhibits include Liminal Passages at Longwood College in Virginia,
The Distance Between at the Limerick Printmakers Gallery in Ireland and
Contain/Retain at the
Cocoon Gallery in
Kansas City. Currently Monika teaches at University of the
Pacific-Stockton, CA
