Monika Morgenstern is an Australian contemporary visual artist born in Germany and currently residing on Ngarrindjeri Country in Strathalbyn, South Australia. Monika is known for her exploration of colour as a mystical material and has been working with light and its effect on glass, digital prints, lightboxes, and projections.

Morgenstern gained a Bachelor of Visual Art with Honours in 2014 at the Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide. In 2021 she received an independent makers Arts SA grant, where she acquired expertise in using glass as a medium, and the Guildhouse Catapult mentorship, where she collaborated with Sasha Grbich, artist, writer, and lecturer known for her responsive work with places and communities. In 2022 she received an Arts South Australia fellowship in which she researched colour as a mystical material, pushing the boundaries of her work.

In 2023 she received the Eran Svigos award for the exhibition titled "I Dwell in Possibility." Additionally, she earned the Fringe Best Visual Art & Design weekly award for the same exhibition. In 2023 she exhibited “Wordless Silence" at the Barossa Regional Gallery where she created an immersive and contemplative visual experience over two rooms.

Monika Morgenstern has been consistently shortlisted, including the Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize in 2022/23/24, the Heysen Prize for Landscape in 2018/19/20, and the Tatiara Contemporary Art Prize in 2021&23. Earlier in her career, her work was shortlisted for the 2018 SALA Latent Photography Prize and her video work "Visitors of the Night" was featured at the Adelaide Festival Centre. Her video "I am the Wind," was shown at Murray Bridge Regional Gallery and Praxis Artspace in 2022. More recently, in 2023/24, her work featured in the exhibition “Shifter” at Lake Macquarie's Museum of Art and Culture, NSW.

Morgenstern has given public talks whenever she has exhibited and in 2023, she was a presenter at the National Public Gallery Summit with the talk “Encounter with the Otherworldly” in which she discussed how galleries can facilitate an experience of transcendence in contemporary spaces.