Monika Bravo was born in Bogota, Colombia and lives in NY since 1994. Her work includes a combined use of photography, video, audio, industrial materials and technology and focuses on the notion of space and time.
Her work has been exhibited among others at the Seoul International Biennial of New Media Art, the Centro de Arte Caja CAB de Burgos, Spain, El Museo del Barrio, NY etc, while several institutions such as the MOMA, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museo di Arte Contemporaneo di Roma e.t.c. have offered to screen her film productions.
She has been the recipient of numerous awards (first Longwood Digital_Matrix Commission, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Art Scope Miami Emergent Artist awards in 2002 and 2005 and on two occasions the NYSCA’s Electronic Media & Film Award) and was she was invited to give lectures at the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Lannan Foundation e.t.c.
She was has also selected to participate in 2001‘s LMCC’s WTC World Views, the Santa Fe Art Institute and the 2003 ART OMI Artist-in- Residency Programs. Her work has been widely reviewed by the press and has been included at The New York Times, Art Nexus, Art in America, The New Yorker.