Artist
Monika Berenyi is a creative artist who has constructed a diverse body of work that exploits as many types of media as it promiscuously absorbs cultural virtues. Working in various forms, she possesses a wide range of style while maintaining the integrity of conceptual clarity. Her works contain an ironic wit, as they are consistently peculiar, and question art's role in contemporary culture.
Fusing the tangible with allure, Monika connects spirituality with modernity, and celebrates human beauty through a distinctive style of abstract figurative expressionism.
Her work has been internationally exhibited in various contexts and draws polemical reactions for its bold address of potentially controversial subject matter. Monika's artworks are held in public and private collections in Canada and abroad, and her studio is located in Toronto.
Distinguished collections holding Monika's work:
- St. Michael's College Collection, University of Toronto
- Toronto General Hospital
- Hillebrand Estates Winery
- Ukraine Museum of Contemporary Art
Influences
Endre Ady, Anna Akhmatova, Les Ballets Russes, Bauhaus, Ingmar Bergmann, The Bloomsbury Group, Marc Chagall, Frederic Chopin, Jean Cocteau, Le Corbusier, Tivadar Csontvary, Marguerite Duras, Attila Gerecz, Paul Gauguin, Natalya Goncharova, Gwen John, Carl Jung, Wassily Kandinsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Paul Klee, Czeslaw Milosz, Piet Mondrian, Arvo Part, Borys Pasternak, Sylvia Plath, Zbigniew Preisner, Dmitri Shostakovich, Henry David Thoreau, Marina Tsvetaeva, Wojciech Weiss, Stanislaw Witkacy, Stanislaw Wyspianski, Zamfir and many others.
Academic and Artistic Studies
| 2003 | Diploma in Visual Arts Foundation Studies, Department of Fine Arts McMaster University |
| 2002 | Master of Arts, Department of History University of Toronto |
| 2000 | Honours Bachelor of Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of Hungarian Studies University of Toronto |
| 1999 | Diploma in Polish Literature, Department of European Languages John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland |
| 1999 | Diploma in Hungarian Language and Literature Studies Arany Janos Language Institute, Budapest, Hungary |
