Project Description
EXHIBITIONS
Asylumscapes – Studies on Sites of Memory
March 29 to May 13, 2023
Deviance – Women in the Asylum During the Fascist Regime
August 22 to October 13, 2018
Untethered – Stories of the Fillmore District
October 1 to November 19, 2016
Monica Lundy, photo by Daniele Puppi
Italian-American artist Monica Lundy was born in Portland, Oregon (1974) and raised between the United States and Saudi Arabia. She holds a BFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA in painting from Mills College, where she worked closely with the Chinese-American artist Hung Liu (1948-2021). Lundy’s lavish mixed-media paintings and installations are based on extensive research conducted in archives, museums and libraries around the world. Her subjects include historically marginalized populations whose struggles are long forgotten. By unearthing the narratives of these people and places, she gives new voice to their plights, that we today might learn from the trials they endured. Her painting technique incorporates non-traditional media such as clay, rusted metal, liquid porcelain, and burned paper, catching viewers off-guard with a sensibility is simultaneously gritty and luxuriant. Lundy’s site-specific installations have been mounted in unusual venues such as Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Mint, Golden Gate State Park in San Francisco and Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome (a decommissioned “insane asylum”). She is the subject of a recently published monograph featuring texts by four distinguished authors, with a lead essay by Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.). Lundy currently lives and works in Rome and Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy.
