Monica Lopez De Victoria

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Fine Arts with Art History Minor and Honorary Honors College Degree 

Phi Beta Kappa, Florida International University, Miami, FL 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES:

2025 Way of Water, Forklift Productions, Moss Center, Cutler Bay, FL

2024 ///HEAT///WAVE///, MTN Space Gallery, Fort Worth, FL

2023 TM Sisters: Whirl Crash Go!, Locust Projects Pavilion at Making Miami, Miami, FL

2023 ~~~light waves~~~, Moss Center, Cutler Bay, FL

2022 Submerging Geometry, O, Miami & City of Miami Beach, Scott Rakow Youth Center, Miami, FL

2021 Submerging Geometry, O, Miami & City of Miami Beach, Scott Rakow Youth Center, Miami, FL

2019 Ripplings, curated by Angelica Arbelaez, Walgreens Windows by Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL

2018  Chromacasting, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany

2017 angeles veloces arcanos fugaces, in collaboration with Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Faena Forum, Miami Beach, FL

2015 Electro, in collaboration with Sleeper Speaks, curated by ArtCenter South Florida, Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

2015 Star Track, in collaboration with BMW, III Points, Miami, FL

2014 Bounce Room, III Points- Music, Art, Tech Festival, Miami, FL

2014 Join Me In a Land That Knows No End, curated by Paul Amenta, Site Lab Morton Hotel, Grand Rapids, MI 

2013 Sky Tidings, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL 

2013 Galaxy, Samsung Galaxy Gallery, III Points- Music, Art, Tech Festival, Miami, FL

2013 Prismavolt, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

2009 WHIRL CRASH GO!, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2009 (((sparks))), Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University, Seattle, WA

2009 IDEALTONIGHT, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

2005 Electric Lights from Such Great Heights, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL

2002 The Unidentical Not Twin Sisters' Show, Tessie Franzblau Gallery, North Miami, FL 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2025 mel-brooks, [NAME], Miami, FL

2023 Past in a Pile, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL

2022 Oolite Home + Away Artists-in-Residence Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO

2021 MIA GALLERIES Recent Acquisitions, Miami International Airport, Miami ,FL

2021 Lite the Night, Broward County Art in Public Places, Ft.Lauderdale, FL

2021 Rocking Chair Sessions, Coral Gables Art Museum, Miami, FL

2020 New Art South Florida, NSU Art Museum, Ft.Lauderdale, FL

2019 Collab 6, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL

2019 White Magic City, Gwangju Media Art Festival, Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea

2019 Facing the Flat World, Goyang International Artist Residency, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, Seoul, South Korea

2019 Interactive Playhouse, curated by Jennifer Clay, Interactive Initiative, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

2018 Haus Gropius || Zeitgenössisch, Bauhaus Artist Residency exhibition, Dessau, Germany

2018 ABMB Artist Studio, Dupont Building, Miami, FL

2018 This is Normal, curated by HOXXOH, Aqua Art Fair, SuperChief Gallery, Miami, FL

2018 Disruptive Female, curated by Rochi Llaneza, Collective 62 & Pinecrest Gardens, Miami, FL

2015 100+ Degrees in the Shade, curated by Jane Hart, Miami Design District, FL

2014 Join Me In a Land That Knows No End, Miami, David Castillo Gallery PopUp, Miami Beach, FL

2014 ABMB Artist Studio, Downtown Art House, Miami, FL

2014 Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

2013  ABMB Artist Studio, Downtown Art House, Miami, FL

2013 I Think It’s In My Head, curated exhibition at Girls’ Club, Ft.Lauderdale, FL

2012 ABMB Artist Studio, Downtown Art House, Miami, FL

2012 Croc Vibrations, Lacoste Flagship Store, Miami, FL

2012 Lightness, Being, curated by Trong Nygon, Gallery Brooklyn , Brooklyn, NY

2012 Artopia, Villa 221, Miami, FL

2012 Shimmer, Miami Made, Adrianne Arsch Center for Performing Artis, Miami, FL

2011 Four Minutes, ThirtyThree Second, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, LegalArt, Miami, FL

2011 Party Animals, Royal/T Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Cultural Consortium Recipients, Frost Museum, Miami, FL

2010 Call and Response, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC

2010 Good N' Plenty, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami, FL

2010 Heart Happening, Margulies Collection, Miami, FL

2010 New Works Miami, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2010 Sam's Book of Martyrs, Gallery, New York City, NY

2010 Friends of Friends, Salt Lake City, UT

2010 Aesthetics & Values, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

2009 Hot + Cold: Last Zine, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Fransisco, CA

2009 Optic Nerve XI, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

2009 Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Clinton Street Theater, Portland, OR

2009 Bum Equipment, curated by Peter Burr, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR

2009 5 Year Anniversary, curated by Mia Nelson, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada

2009 Confection, curated by Pres Rodriguez, O.H.W.O.W., Miami, FL

2008 Its Only Rock and Roll, curated by Jane Hart, ArtMbassy Berlin/Rome, Scope Fair, Miami, FL

2008 Southern Gothic Now, curated by Clayton Colvin, Space 301, Mobile, AL 

2008 DREAM(land), curated by Annie Wharton, Los Angeles, CA

2008 SCA3RAW, organized by Deborah Lovely, Society of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2007 GEISAI Miami, organized by Takashi Murakami and Kaikai Kiki, juried by Tom Eccles, Massimiliano Gioni, Carol Kino, Lin Lougheed, & Watler Robinson,

SoHo Studios, Miami, FL

2007 Miami Contemporary Artists: Creating a Scene, curated by Gean Moreno, Freedom Tower, Miami, FL

2007 The Ball of Artists, organized by Richard Massey and Robert Chambers, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL

2007 Material World, curated by Scott Murray, 2020 Gallery, Miami, FL 

2007 PERFORMA 07, organized by Roselee Goldberg, curated by Benjamin Weil and Silvia Cubina, Artists Space, New York, NY

2007 Undertow, curated by Sibel Kocabasi and Alvaro Pereyra, Mimar Sinan University College of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey 

2007 Revolt & Revere, curated by Jane Hart, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, FL

2007 Hurricane Projects: Outbursts of Energy, curated by Silvia Cubina, Moore Space, Miami, FL

2007 Art Club, curated by Susan Gesheidle, Gesheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 Confluence: A Collaboration, curated by Bhakti Baxter and Jason Hedges, Fred Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2007 Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Daniel Birnbaum, Warsaw

Poland; Herning, Denmark; Serignan, France; Prague, Czech Republic

2007 Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Iaroslava, Nicolas Bourriaud, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Rosa

Martinez, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Fuliya Erdemci, TSUM, Moscow, Russia

2007 Artists Books: Transgression/Excess and Paralipomena, curated by Dirk Meinzer, Space Other, Boston, MA

2006 MultiUser Knowledge Space[s], curated by Kerstin Niemann, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2006 Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Daniel Birnbaum, Reykjavik Art

Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

2006 Milwaukee International Art Fair, Locust Projects curated by Claire Brukel, Milwaukee, WI

2006 Optic Nerve VIII, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL

2006 Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Daniel Birnbaum, Serpentine

Gallery, London, England

2006 The Inside Game, curated by Joel Leib, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR

2006 Champagne, curated by Jose Carlos Diaz, Stealtharts, Birmingham, AL

2006 Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!, curated by Jose Carlos Diaz, Gesheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006 Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Daniel Birnbaum, Center for

Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY

2006 Notes from the Underground What's Up in Miami, curated by Jose Carlos Diaz, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada 

2006 Champagne, curated by Jose Carlos Diaz, New Chinatown Barbershop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006 EPISODEN und FRAGMENTE, Visualisierung gemeinschaftlicher Beteligungsformen, curated by Kirsten Niemann, Filter Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2006 D.E.M.O.N.S. To Diamonds, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2006 Artist as Reconciler, curated by James Elaine and Makoto Fujimura, Great Hall Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Daniel Birnbaum, Astrup

Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway 

2005 For Everyone and No One, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

2005 Co Operate, curated by Bhakti Baxter and Jason Hedges, Bas/Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL

2005 Flight, curated by Nikki Beem, Miami Light Project, Miami, FL

2005 Sunshine All the Time, curated by Abner Nolan, Mezzanine Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2005 555, I/O, Miami, FL

2004 Button Brigade, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

2004 The Last Show, The House, Miami, FL

2004 Ten Years, curated by Jenna Balfe, Collins Building, Miami, FL

2003 Fresh Video, curated by DonnaMarie Baptiste and Nina Arias, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL

2004 Front and Center, The Box, Miami, FL

2004 I Love Miami, curated by Jessica López, Gen Art, Miami, FL

2004 Side Slide, curated by Matthew Chambers, Wynwood, FL

2004 Bubble, Bubble, Boil...A Miami Visual Stew, MiamiDade Main Library, Miami, FL 

2004 Manifest Destiny, curated by Anat Ebgi, The Madonna Building, Miami, FL

2002 4 @ 924, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami Beach, FL

2002 Miami in San Francisco, Artist's Television Access, San Francisco, CA

2002 Electric Design Disasters, curated by Nancy Garcia, PS742, Little Havana, FL

2001 Beatles Tribute, Revolver, Miami, FL

2001 United Artists, Green Door Gallery, Miami, FL

2001 Fandango Mob Soiree, A.D. Doug Barnes, Miami, FL

2001 Not a Commodity, curated by Fredric Snitzer, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami Beach, FL

2001 Emerging Perspectives, Espirito Santo Plaza, Miami, FL 

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS:

Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places- South Dade Corridor Garage

Commissioned permanent video installation

Project contact: Ana Meza

City of Miami Beach, O, Miami, FAN- On Stage Performance Series

Commissioned aquatic art performance

Project contact: Lissette Arragante lissettearrogante@miamibeachfl.gov 

Hollywood Radius Parking Garage 

Commissioned building mural 

Project contact: Jill Wiesberg jweisberg@hollywoodfl.org

Bebe Flagship store on Lincoln Road

Commissioned painted panels with architecturally mapped video projection

Project contact: Mikel Bowman- mbowman@bebe.com

Lacoste Flagship store on Lincoln Road

Commissioned wall sculpture and mural 

Project contact: Mikel Bowman mbowman@lacosteusa.com

SiTELAB at the Morton Hotel for Art Prize in Grand Rapids, MI

Sculpture and room installation 

Project contact: Paul Amenta paul@sitelab.org

Becks Beer, Anheuser-Busch

Commissioned bottle design and art installation

Project contacts: Jessica Barlow jessica.barlow@proteinos.com & 

Fabian Garcia Fabian.Garcia@anheuserbusch.com

Grolsh Beer

Commissioned mural

Upper East Side Garden

Commissioned putt-putt hole design and sculpture 

Project contact: Peter Rozek peter_rozek@hotmail.com 

James Hotel Miami Beach

Video and light installation 

Project contact: Janice Angel jangel@mocanomi.org 

Shoppes at Bal Harbor

Video game and light sculpture 

Project contact: Carolyn Travis ctravis@balharbourflorida.com 

Drake Hotel in Toronto

Commissioned video mapped video game 

Project contact: Mia Nielsen mia@thedrakehotel.ca 

Downtown Development Authority (DDA) City of Miami- Miami World Center 

Commissioned mural for Downtown Art House

Project Contact: Sonja Bogensperger bogensperger@miamidda.com 

Ft.Lauderdale/Hollywood Airport

Commissioned art video 

Project contact: Christina Roldan CROLDAN@broward.org 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES:

-PEAR Projects- The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL

-Oolite Home + Away: Mass MoCA- North Adams, MA

-Oolite Home + Away: Anderson Ranch Art Center- Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA

-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea, Goyang International Artist Residency- Seoul, South Korea

-Bauhaus Foundation Artist Residency- Dessau, Germany

-Artist in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE) National Park- Homestead, Florida, USA

-The Farm Artist in Residence- Waiheke Island, New Zealand

-LegalArt Artist Residency- Downtown Miami, Florida, USA

-Cultural Festival AIR- Guadalajara, Mexico

-Artist in Residence at the Drake Hotel- Toronto, Canada

Commissions: 

Miami-Dade County 

City of Miami Beach

Funding Arts Network

O, Miami

Bauhaus Foundation

Gwangju Media Art Festival

Becks Beer

BMW

bebe

III Points

Capital One 

Locust Projects

Lacoste

Grolsh

Broward Arts and Culture 

Ft.Lauderdale/Hollywood Int. Airport 

ArtCenter South Florida

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 

SiTELAB

Sweat Records

Downtown Development Authority (DDA) for City of Miami

Cannonball

Krelwear 

Miami Bass Warriors 

Jean Marie

In Dependence 

Encounter 

Ralf Nemec

Upper East Side Garden 

Flamingo Night Life

Live Video Mixing/Visuals at Events: 

“Tropical Goth”, Kitten Club, Berlin, Germany 2018

“I Heart Art”, Cannonball, Miami, FL 2013
“Disco Nap”, III Points Music Festival, Miami, FL 2013
“Fly Me To The Moon”, Delano Beachclub, South Beach, FL 2013
“VJ Residency”, Set Nightclub, South Beach, FL 2013-2014
“TM Sisters and Otto Von Schirach”, Ricochet, Miami, FL 2012
"KREL DiscGlo Fashion Show", Eden Roc, South Beach, FL 2009
"Miami Bass Warriors Record Release Performance", Vagabond, Miami, FL 2009 

"Death Print Premier", Colony Theater, South Beach, FL 2009
“Disco Kill”, Remote Controllers Warehouse, Miami, FL 2009
“Flamingo”, PS14, Miami, FL 2009
“NightDrive”, News Café Lounge, Miami, FL 2008
“Synergy”, Stockholm, Sweden 2008
“Michna & Jose El Rey”, Poplife PS14, Miami, FL 2008
“Blood Sucker”, performance with Otto Von Schirach, 305 Lounge, Miami Beach, FL 

“COPY & E*Rock”, Poplife White Room, Miami, FL 2008
“New West Electronic Art and Music Organization Festival”, PS14, Miami, FL 2008 

“Trinumeral Music & Art Festival”, Asheville, NC, 2008
“Pop Art”, Poplife White Room, Miami, FL 2008
“Off Island”, Official Art Basel After Hours event, Miami, FL, 2007
“Palm Field Holiday BBQ”, House Artists Studio, Miami, FL, 2007
“Flavorpill Art Basel Party”, Poplife The District, Miami, FL, 2005
“Tasty”, Miami, FL, 2004 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023

“Making Miami” book, edited by Amanda Bradley & Jayaram, designed by Lemon Yellow, 

Miami, FL

2015
“100+ Degrees in the Shade” book, edited by Jane Hart, Miami Design District, FL

2010
PERFORMA 07, book New York, New York

2009 

Jane Hart, “TM Sisters- IDEALTONIGHT”, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

Daisuke Nishimura, "Someone's Garden", Book, Tokyo Japan, December 2009 

Cara Despain, Miami Art Guide, December, 2009 

Miami Magazine, December, 2009
Tom Austin, "Give sister act a whirl", Miami Herald, October 26, 2009
Victor Barrenechea, “Big, Wet, Fast”, Biscayne Times, August 2009
Colleen Dougher, “Float on”, City Link, April 29 May 5 2009
Joanie Cox, “Polar Opposites”, City Link, April 29 May 5 2009
Cara Despain, “Ideal Tonight”, Wynwood Art Magazine, February 2009
Colleen Dougher, “Strange Magic”, City Link, March 2009
Terry Lee Stone, “2009 Emerging Talents: Exploring the 25 Freshest Minds in Design”, STEP Inside Design Magazine, January/February 2009
2008
Richard Martin, “Act Locally”, Miami Luxury Magazine, December 2008
Leigh Anne Miller, “Performance: Everywhere and All at Once”, Art in America, March 2008
T.M. Shine, “The totally amazing, absolutely electrifying adventures of the TM Sisters” (cover image and story), City Link, January 28 2008
2007
Caroline Corbetta, “Vogue Arte”, Vogue Italia, December 2007
Mark Ellwood, “Made in Japan”, New York Times Style Magazine, Holiday 2007
Abel Folgar, “Me + You + Everyone We Know”, MAP Magazine, Winter 2007
Julie Davidow & Paul Clemence, "Miami Contemporary Artists", Book 2007
Sarah Eberle, “Things that Matter to People Who Matter”, Philadelphia City Paper, September 27, 2007
Robin Cembalest & Elisa Turner, “25 Trendsetters” (cover image and story), ARTnews, September 2007
Victor Barrenechea, “VideoGame Girls”, Biscayne Times, September 2007
Elisa Turner, "Made In Miami", Miami Herald, July 2007
Jose Ortiz, "Essentials Du Moment", Ocean Drive Magazine, June 2007
Komeniek Ruyters, "Oog In Oog Met Playstation", De Volkskrant, May 2007
Igor Grebelnikov, "Arts in Mass", Harper's Bazaar Russia, April 2007
Brian Droitcour, "Mission to Moscow", ArtForum, March 2007

2006
Margery Gordon, "Flying Under the Radar", Art+Auction, December 2006
Nathaniel McBride, “Uncertain States of America and USA Today”, Flash Art, Nov.Dec. 2006
Brett O’Bourke, “Festival promises moving show”, Miami Herald, August 2006
Nick Hackworth, “Cultural Scrap Merchants”, Evening Standard, September 2006 

Adrian Searle, “Rebels Without a Cause”, The Guardian, September 2006
Garyson Perry, “America seized by doubt? Well, it has its benefits”, The Times, September 2006
Michael Workman, “Eye Exam: Original Voice”, New City Chicago, September 2006 Benjamin Genocchio, “How Young Europeans View America’s ‘Uncertain’ State”, New York Times, September 2006 

Roberta Smith, “Endgame Rules: Borrow, Sample, Multiply, Repeat“, New York Times, July 2006
Ina Blom, "The Young Americans", Texte zur Kunst, May 2006
Maria Iliazova, "Miami, The Way of Art", L'Officiel Russia, May 2006 

Carlos Suarez De Jesus, "School's Out", Miami NewTimes, April 2006 Christiane Opitz, "Nie mehr allein", Szene Hamburg, April 2006
Julie Boukobza, "Miami, The Way of Art", L'Officiel France, April 2006 

2005 

"Uncertain States of America", Dazed and Confused, London, December 2005 

Camille Lamb, "Art Basel 101", Miami Living, December 2005
Arthur C. Danto, "I’ll Be Your Mirror" ArtForum, December 2005
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium" exhibition catalog 2005 

Elisa Turner, “Critic’s Pick”, Miami Herald, November 2005
Michelle Weinberg, "A Collaborative Canvas", Miami New Times, August 2005
Adriana Herrera T., "Planos de vuelo en el Miami Light Project", El Nuevo Herald, June 2005
2004
Tom Austin, “Miami, Exposed”, Miami New Times, July 2004
Arjun Dhingra, “As of this afternoon, there are no prime suspects”, Miami Hurricane Life and Art, November

2003
Chis Johnson, "Gen Art: Artists of the Month", Closer Magazine, April 2003 

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