Monica Lopez De Victoria, Soft Flames, 2024, yarn, fabric, and glue, 50 1/2 x 78 1/4 inches (detail)
mtn space gallery is pleased to present ///HEAT///WAVE///, a solo exhibition of multi-media work by Miami-based artist Monica Lopez De Victoria.
Lopez De Victoria is visualizing the hypnotic unseen connections and invisible systems that surround us — emotional waves, rippling movements, supernatural illusions, and waves of interference patterns. While in residence at the Bauhaus in 2018, she was deeply impacted by Oskar Schlemmer’s theories about emotional space, movement, and the body, which pervade her work today.
///HEAT///WAVE/// will feature a selection of tufted textiles, sewn watercolors, and digital artworks examining the above interspersed with a blend of Miami mashups: art deco aesthetics, digital sunset smears, aquatic landscapes, tropical depression, and glitchy heatwaves.
Monica Lopez De Victoria (b. 1980) is a Puerto Rican and Swedish American who has shaped the Miami art scene for 25 years. She is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, artistic swimmer/choreographer, digital multi-verser, and collaborator in the experimental sibling duo TM Sisters.
Her work has been featured and written about in L’OFFICIEL magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews. Her work has also been exhibited at the Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, and in Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Daniel Birnbaum, among others.
Lopez De Victoria was an Artist In Residence at Mass MoCA (2023) with Oolite’s Home and Away program. She presented her work and upcoming VR project, Swamp Deco, at the MUTEK conference (electronic music & art) in Montreal, Canada (2021 & 2022). Monica recently received a Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places commission for a large permanent video installation at the South Dade Corridor Garage (2023). She was invited to participate in White Magic City in the Gwangju Media Art Festival at the Asian Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea (2019). Lopez De Victoria was also an International Artist in Residence at the Schlemmer Haus at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany during their centennial year (2018).
Monica's personal and collaborative TM Sisters artwork are a part of the permanent collections of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the Scholl Collection; the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; the Miami International Airport Collection; and many private collections.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Art History minor at Florida International University in 2022, along with a Phi Beta Kappa honor, an honorary Honor’s College degree in 2014, and a Torch distinguished alumni award. This is her first solo exhibition with mtn space gallery.