Monica Banks

Monica Banks was born in New York City and lives and works in East Hampton, NY. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Parrish Art Museum, The University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Islip Art Museum, LongHouse Reserve, Peter Marino Art Foundation, and the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park. In addition to the public collections above, she has exhibited at the New Britain Museum of American Art, White Box in NYC, Spring Break Art Fair NYC, The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Carriage House at Islip Art Museum, The Center for Architecture in NYC, and other venues.

She created "Faces: Times Square,” a block-long sculpture which stood in Times Square from 1996-2009, for which she won an award from The Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Her permanent public works are located in the Bronx, Binghamton NY, and Charlotte, NC. She has been exhibiting sculpture and doing site-specific installations since 1989.