Born in New York NY
Lives and works in East Hampton NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2024 Bird Happenings at LongHouse, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton NY
2023-24 Bird Happenings, outdoor installation, Leiber Collection Garden, East Hampton NY
2022 All You Can Eat, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York NY and Bridgehampton NY
Naked Lunch, Spring Break Art Fair, New York NY
2021 Inequality Bakery, site-specific installation on Jobs Lane in Southampton, part of the Village Storefront Project
2020 Cloud Garden at Guild Hall, site-specific installation in the Furman Garden of Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
2020 Disrupted, window installation during June Covid closure, with Laurie Lambrecht, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor NY
2019 Ordained, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor NY
2018 Pulchritude, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor NY
2017 Butterfly Pie, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor NY
2013 Tea and Sympathy, installation, Ille Arts, Amagansett NY
2012-2013 Cloud Garden, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack,NY
2010-2016 Faces, installation in the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2010 Adaptive Reuse, installation in the AIA New York Center for Architecture, New York NY
2007-2008 Unsung Heroes of the Holiday Season, installation, The Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY
2007 Sketchbook: Painted Steel Drawings, 1997-2007, Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor NY
2006 Collection Insights: Dogs, Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY
Ticket, WLIW Public Television
2001 Steel Puppies, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton NY
1999 New Steel Works, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton NY
1993 -2000 Faces, Eureka Joe Coffee House, New York NY
1991 Wireworks, University Museum for Contemporary Arts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1990 Holiday Party, American Craft Museum, New York NY
1989 Frozen Curtains, Barneys New York, New York NY
DUAL EXHIBITIONS
2016 Little Deaths, with Christian Little, Spring Break Art Fair, James A. Farley Post Office, NYC
2015 True Confections, with Christa Maiwald, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill NY
2002 Louisa and Rusty, Percent-for-Art horse and dog sculptures at Hunts Point Youth Recreation Center, Bronx NY
1996-2009 Faces: Times Square,166 foot sculptural fence on traffic median between Seventh Ave. and Broadway, New York NY
1996 Carousel Horse, sculpture commissioned by Chermayeff and Geismar for the Binghamton Visitor Center of the Susquehanna Urban Cultural Park, Binghamton NY
Art of New York: Annual Juried Show, Arkell Museum, Canajoharie NY, Doretta Miller, Judge
Sculpture at Sylvestor Manor, Shelter Island, NY, Tom Cugliani, Curator
The Body Politic: Long Island Biennial, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, Curated by Ian Alteveer, Beal Family Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Patricia Cronin, sculptor, Artistic Director of the LGBTQ+ VR Museum and Distinguished Professor of Art, Brooklyn College; and Grace Hong, Assistant Director, Galerie Lelong & Co.
Leiber Collection Garden of Friends, East Hampton NY
2023 Leiber Collection Garden of Friends, East Hampton NY
Planters On + Off The Ground, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton NY
Shape/Form/Structure, SITE:BROOKLYN Gallery
2022 Swept Away; Love Letter To A Surrogate, East Hampton NY,Curated by Warren Neidich and Christina Strassfield
Invisible, ArtYard, Frenchtown NJ, curated by Jill Kearney
Wonderland, TrolleyBarn, Poughkeepsie NY, curated by Allison M. Glenn, in collaboration with youth from The Art Effect
Winter Garden -- A Collaboration, Leiber Collection, East Hampton NY
2021 Planters On + Off The Ground, Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton NY.
Luscious. Tasty. Delicious. Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY. Holly E. Hughes,
Godin Spaulding Senior Curator for the Collection at the Albright-Knox Museum, Juror
August Women, Kathryn Markel Gallery, Bridgehampton NY
2020 Nor’Easter, New Britain Museum of American Art, Nancy Stuart, Juror.
Drive By Art Show, "Brains In Our Arms" intervention curated by Warren Neidich, Hampton Bays to Montauk NY
2019 The Barn Show, curated by Johannes Vogt, East Hampton NY
In The Cloud, curated by Scott Bluedorn, Kathryn Markel Gallery, Bridgehampton NY
2012 Long Island Biennial, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington NY
The Art of Collecting, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2008 Six Feet Under, White Box, New York NY
Tria Summer Cocktail The Suchman-Bart-Metheny Gallery, New York NY
Cool Moves, Children's Museum of the East End, Bridgehampton NY
41st Annual Springs Invitational, East Hampton NY
2007 The Permanent Collection: Recent Aquisitions, Islip Art Museum, East Islip NY
Go Figure! 2007 Sculpture Exhibit at The Fells, The Fells, John Jay National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury New Hampshire
Gallery Artists Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor NY
40th Annual Springs Invitational Exhibition, East Hampton NY
Third Annual Artist & Celebrity Birdhouse Exhibit & Auction, Southampton NY
2006 Gallery Artists Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor NY
39th Annual Springs Invitational Exhibition, East Hampton NY
2005 Gateway to Sculpture, The Fells, John Jay National Wildlife Refuge,Newbury, New Hampshire
1999-2004 Dealers’ Choice, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton NY
1999 Juried Show, Smithtown Township Arts Council, Smithtown NY
1998 The Winter Show, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton NY
1995 New Generation, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton NY
1991 How Will We Live in 2001? Invitational exhibit, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
AWARDS
2020 New Britain Museum of American Art. Second Prize, awarded to Cinnamon Crunch, Nancy Stuart, judge.
2019 Guild Hall Members Show, East Hampton, NY. Best Sculpture, awarded for Dyad. Jocelyn Miller, Assistant Curator at MOMA PS1, judge.
2010 Guild Hall Members Show, East Hampton, NY. Best Sculpture Award for Punctuation. Benjamin Genocchio, Art Critic The New York Times, judge.
1996 The Art Commission of the City of NY, Award for Excellence in Design, for Faces: Times Square
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
University Museum for Contemporary Arts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Peter Marino Art Foundation
Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton NY
EDUCATION
Domus Academy, Milan Italy. Industrial Design
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY. A.B. Philosophy
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
'A Bird Happening' with Artist Monica Banks at Leiber Collection, James Lane Post, September 18, 2023
2022
Genocchio, Benjamin, Incollect Magazine: Maeve D’Arcy “Off the Record” and Monica Banks “All You Can Eat,” August 10, 2022
Calder, Rich, Photographs by Johnny Milano for The Wall Street Journal
2020
Halle,Howard A drive-by art exhibition recently popped up in the Hamptons, Time Out New York, 5/13/20
A Cloud Garden Sprouts in the Trees at Guild Hall, Sag Harbor Express, 9/8/20
2019
Events in Westchester, The New York Times, October 20
Ernst, Eric, Perspectives Southampton Press, Southampton NY, April 27 Wolberg Weiss, Marion, Art Commentary: Members Show at Guild Hall, Dan's Papers, East Hampton NY, April 30
2007
Mannix, Karyn, Ebb and Flow, The East Hampton Press, July 25
Pride, Mike, Go Figure, Concord Monitor, Concord NH, July 19
Goleas, Janet, Ebullient Art That Shouts Out Loud, The East Hampton Star, July 5
2006
Goleas, Janet, Collection Insights: Monica Banks, Dogs, Islip Museum exhibition essay
Long, Robert, The Essence Of Dogness, The East Hampton Star, March 2
On Record, Sculpture, July/August 2006
2005
CITY ART: NEW YORK’S PERCENT FOR ART PROGRAM, Marvin Heiferman, editor, forward by Adam Gopnick. Merrell Publishing
MARQUIS WHO’S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN
Sansegundo, Sheridan, The Art Scene, The East Hampton Star, June 2
2004
Long, Robert, Dogs, Mice, Cadillacs, and Scraps, The East Hampton Star, March 4
2003
Sansegundo, Sheridan, Bold Colors, Bolder Variety, The East Hampton Star, November 27
Slivka, Rose C.S.,From The Studio, The East Hampton Star, October 23
2000
Petkanas, Christopher, Encore Joe D’Urso, House Beautiful, November, pictures pages 200-203
1998
Braff, Phyllis, Art Review: The Winter Show, The New York Times Long Island Weekly Desk, Sunday March 8
Sansegundo, Sheridan, Opinion: A Miracle of Order, The East Hampton Star, March 19
Slivka, Rose C.S.,From The Studio, The East Hampton Star, March 26
1997
FACES: TIMES SQUARE/CREATING A SCULPTURE. Film Documentary, Victor Productions
1996
Vogel, Carol, Inside Art, The New York Times, May 25
Rowan, Victoria, The New Faces of 1996, Time Out New York, May 8-15
Southgate, Patsy, Monica Banks, Times Square Sculptor, The East Hampton Star, December 19
Tannenbaum, Abby, In Her Faces, (cover story) The Vassar Quarterly, Fall
Tannenbaum, Abby, New Faces in Times Square, Manhattan Plaza News, October
1995
Martin, Douglas, Public Art: A Fence with Faces to Grace Times Square, The New York Times, December 27
Weiss, Marion Wolberg, New Generation at Elaine Benson, Dan’s Papers, May 12
1991
Russell, Gloria, University Gallery Triples Viewers’ Satisfaction, Sunday Republican, Springfield MA, May 5
Watson, Bruce, Wire and a World of Wonders, Amherst Bulletin, Amherst MA, April 24
COMMUNITY WORKS
Lectures, Panel Discussions, Guest Critic, Judge: Parsons School of Design, Islip Art Museum, Vassar College, Rhode Island School of Design, West Virginia Dept. of Culture and History, SUNY Southampton, AIA NY Center for Architecture
Workshops and Community Art Projects: Art In Corrections (guest art teacher at Riverhead Prison through the Parrish Museum and New Hour organization, Spring 2020), Community Artist in Residence, Guild Hall (Summer 2020), Children's Museum of the East End, Jewish Center of the Hamptons, Guild Hall of East Hampton, The Ross School, Andy Warhol Foundation, Hunts Point Youth Recreation Center, Parrish Art Museum