Monica Rezman is a mul/-media ar/st who explores in/macy within abstrac/on through the use of tradi/onal media and everyday found materials. She studied pain/ng and tex/le design at the School of the Art Ins/tute of Chicago in 1979. While at SAIC, she spent a study-abroad year at the Ins/tuto Allende in Mexico. In 1993, she studied classical drawing and pain/ng at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. In 1999 and 2002 consecu/vely, Rezman was awarded an Art-in-Residence in Gujurat, India, one of the world’s most revered craN communi/es in tex/les. For the last forty years, she has exhibited na/onally and interna/onally including exhibi/ons at The Riverside Art Center, 2019; Governors State University Gallery, 2019; Merida English Library, Mexico, 2019; the Chicago Cultural Center, 2017; The Contemporary Art Gallery, India, 1999; and the South Bend Regional Museum of Art, 1998. In 2017-18 she was the Ar/st-In- Residence at the Chicago Ar/st Coali/on’s Field/Work program. She is a 2020 recipient of an Individual Illinois Arts Council Grant. Her work has been reviewed by Hyperallergic, Alan Artner (Chicago Tribune), and New City. She is currently exhibi/ng at 65Grand in Chicago.