Monika Morgenstern
Born Germany | Resides Ngarrindjeri Country
Strathalbyn, South Australia
Education
2012 – 2014 Adelaide Central School of Art - Bachelor of Visual Art [Honours]
2008 – 2011 Adelaide Central School of Art - Associate Degree in Visual Art
1992 – 1993 Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne - Associate Diploma of Arts (Finished Art)
1988 - 1990 University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf – Germany - Interior Design
Award Exhibitions - Finalist
2024 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize
2024 SALA - Advertiser Contemporary Art Award Finalist
2023 Tatiara Art Prize
2023 Creative Health Contemporary Art Prize
2023 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize
2023 Barossa Vintage Festival Art Prize
2022 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize
2021 Tatiara Art Prize
2020 Heysen Art Prize for Landscape
2019 Heysen Art Prize for Landscape
2019 Tatiara Art Prize
2019 SALA Contemporary Art Prize
2018 Heysen Art Prize for Landscape
2018 Fleurieu Art Prize
2018 Latent Photography Prize - SALA 2018
2015 Whyalla Art Prize
2015 Prospect Portrait Prize
2012 Clifton’s Art Prize, Adelaide (People’s choice award)
2008 Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill
2008 Stanthorpe Art Prize, Qld
2005 Whyalla Art Prize, SA
Awards
2023 Eran Svigos award for I Dwell In Possibility
2023 Fringe best Visual Art & Design weekly award winner for I Dwell In Possibility
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Onkaparinga Regional Art Space - The radiant now
2023 Barossa Regional Gallery - Wordless Silence
2023 Murray Bridge Regional Gallery – I Dwell in Possibility
2022 Praxis Artspace – Fear Not
2021 BMG Gallery - Gestures
2021 Teneriba Gallery, SALA - Ostium
2020 Collective Haunt Gallery - Fenestra
2019 Worth Gallery - The Essence of Nothing
2018 Signal Point Gallery - SALA, Rapture
2017 Hahndorf Academy - Rapture
2016 Murray Bridge Regional Gallery - SALA, Who’s Afraid of the Colour Blue?
2014 ArtPod Adelaide – Powerplay
Video Installations
2023 Barossa Regional Gallery - Prima Materia
2023 Murray Bridge Regional Gallery - I am the Wind
2022 Sixth Street Makers Market Murray Bridge - Initium
2022 Praxis Artspace - I am the Wind
2022 FELT Space Adelaide - I am the Wind
2018 FELT Space Adelaide - Visitors of the Night
2018 Adelaide Festival Centre - Visitors of the Night
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Wonderground | Barossa - Incandescent
2024 Assembly: Unveiling the City of Adelaide Contemporary Art Collection 2010–2024
2024 SALA HUB | Light Room Gallery - Proximity
2023 Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie (NSW) - Shifter
2023 Smartart Gallery - A place in time
2022 Worth Gallery - A Mixed blend
2022 Main Gallery – Beyond
2022 Adelaide Town Hall – Art as a Visual Language
2021 WEST Gallery Adelaide – Abstraction
2019 WEST Gallery Adelaide - Extra Virgin
2019 St. Ignatius Bi-Annual Art Show (Rector's Prize Winner)
2017 Worth Gallery, Kent Town - Dwell
2016 Worth Gallery, Kent Town - Open
2015 Fisher Jeffries Foyer Space - Illumination
2015 The Barn Gallery, Aldgate - On the Wall & Floor
2015 Adelaide Central Gallery (Fringe exhibition) - With a Spring in my Step
2015 Helpmann Graduate Exhibition
2014 Adelaide Central School of Art - Breaking Silence
2014 SALA Adelaide Town Hall Eight
2014 Port Augusta Cultural Centre - Travelling North
2014 Helpmann Graduate Exhibition
2013 Adelaide Central School of Art - Uncharted Territory
2012 Adelaide Central Gallery - Cats & Dogs
2010 Port Adelaide, New Land Gallery Convers(ly) Curated by Fulvia Mantelli
Grants and Commissions
2022 Arts SA – Fellowship
2021 Guildhouse - Catapult
2021 Arts SA – Independent Artist Grant
2020 Country Arts SA – Postcard Commission
2020 Country Arts SA – Covid 19 Artist Grant
2020 Country Arts SA – Quick Response Grant
2017 Adelaide Central School of Art Support Program Grant
2010 Professional Development Grant. Project Coordinator for Converse[ly] The Artist’s Voice. Country Arts SA
2009 Regional Arts Fund: Quick Response Grant, Country Arts SA
Further Development & Experience
2022 Speaker - Art + Place, public art workshop
2021 Mentee to Sasha Grbich - Videographer
2020/21 Mentee to Erni Tinesz - Flat Glass artist
2014 Art Gallery of SA Sketch club tutor Abstracting the Human Form
2010/11 Exhibition coordinator Kensington Gallery, Adelaide
2010 Mentee to Fulvia Mantelli - Curator
2009 Masterclass with Godwin Bradbeer ’Describing the Body’
Collections
City of Adelaide
City of Marion
Numerous private collection.