Born and raised in Middlebury, VT, Monica Church has lived in New York’s Hudson Valley for over three decades. She is an abstract artist working in painting, collage and assemblage. She also curates exhibitions. Church has won two Arts Mid-Hudson Individual Artist Fellowships— one for photography and one for painting. Other awards include The Billboard Gallery, the Silvermine Guild Arts Center’s Steven Madwed Prize for Photography and The Rosenthal Foundation Best in Show Award; and a Carolyn Grant from Vassar College. Church has had numerous solo shows including at Garrison Art Center, Vassar College’s Palmer Gallery; Womenswork.ART; Dutchess Community College Gallery; Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY; University of Kentucky’s Center for Contemporary Art; LoRiver Arts Gallery and Go North, both in Beacon, NY. Blue Leaf Gallery featured her work at the Dublin Art Fair and the Edinburgh Art Fair, her artwork is also included in both private and institutional collections. Church studied printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design and has a B.A. in Visual Arts from Bennington College and an M.F.A. in Painting from The University of Kentucky.