Monica Stroik
Monica Stroik
Monica Stroik

Monica Stroik

BiographyMonica Stroik is a multimedia artist from the mid-Atlantic United States. Her disciplines include painting, silversmithing, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, encaustics, photography, live performance in voice and instrumentation, and video. For the past ten years she has provided visual design and implementation of video for live performances in venues ranging from small rock clubs, to art galleries, to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She is one part of the duo Oms, a live multimedia collaboration that integrates visuals with sound by incorporating improvisational and compositional elements throughout spacious, ethereal arrangements.

Stroik has an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been featured in local galleries, international embassies, and commissioned for private collections as well as for large institutional installations. Within the DC metropolitan area these spaces include the Arlington Arts Center, Hillyer Art Space, Civilian Art Project, Area 405, McLean Project for the Arts, Glenview Mansion, Marymount University’s Barry Gallery, Artisphere, GRACE, and the Stone Tower Gallery at Glen Echo. She has completed studio residencies at the Arlington Arts Center, School of Visual Arts, and The Torpedo Factory. She was featured in New American Paintings in 2015 and completed a DC Commission for the Arts mural, commissioned for the Hive Hotel in 2017. She currently has a studio at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA.

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