BIO

Artist, architect and yogi Mimi Moncier focuses on producing trans-disciplinary work that spans the visual arts of painting, sculpture, architecture, installation, and movement. Her interest in merging and moving between mediums is based on the idea of breaking down and reconsidering formal systems, including the self, which she deliberately integrates within her studio practice and in the production of her work. Subverting formal ideas about architectural space and identity are imperative to her practice. Through the development of Giggling Lotus Yoga and Scrawl(2012-2018), a hybrid space housing yoga, traditional visual arts and performance, she pushed the limits as to what defines the purpose of space beyond its original charge conceiving it more as a blank piece of paper on which to create multiple outcomes and experiences. Moncier has exhibited in Boston, New York, New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham and San Francisco. As an architect she worked on several award-winning projects such as the Getty Antiquities Museum and the Getty Research Center. She has an MFA (2010) from the San Francisco Art Institute, a Diploma in Studio Art (2000) from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts where she was also a recipient of the prestigious Fifth Year Traveling Scholarship in 2001, and a BArch from the University of Tennessee (1988). Mimi is also an ERYT500 yoga teacher.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Thank You Dying Sun, Gallery Vox, Birmingham AL

2017 The Naughty Operetta, Scrawl Center for Drawing

2010 Intermission V: PLAY by the RULES, Adobe Bookshop Parlor/Pistils, SF CA

2009 Intermission III: YouTopia, Adobe Bookshop Parlor/Pistils, SF CA

2009 InterMission I: UnBound, Adobe Bookshop Parlor /Pistils, SF CA

2004 About Color, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville TN

2003 Mute, Soren Christensen Gallery, NOLA

2003 Persona Project, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2003 Recent Paintings, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 Persona, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Members Group Show, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola FL

2023 Summer Invitational, M David & Co, Brooklyn NY

2011 Trio A, Performance with Linda K Johnson, BAM Matrix Series, Berkeley CA

2011 Trio A, Private Performance, Mills College, SF CA

2010 Introductions 2010, Root Division, SF CA

2010 Borders, Root Division, SF CA

2010 Werk, UAB Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL

2010 Chips are Great, SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibit, Herbst Pavillion, SF CA

2010 Compelled, Root Division, SF CA

2009 A Matter of Course, Swell Gallery, SFAI, SF CA

2008 Immediate Thought, MOPA, Museum of Pocket Art

2007 War and Peace, Space 301, Mobile, AL

2007 This many, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2007 It’s okay to just hang out, UNO Art Gallery, University of New Orleans, NOLA

2006 Slow Death, ARTfare, LandEscapes, Beech Hill Farm, Mount Desert Island, Maine

2006 Debris, LSU Art Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA

2005 Shin-il Kim, Mimi Moncier, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2002 System Symptom, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 Traveling Scholars 2001, Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2001 New Talent, 2001, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

CURATED EVENTS

2017 Recent Work, Kadi Franson, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2015 Wall Drawings, Sonja Hinrichsen, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2015 Mount Analogue, ap-art-ment, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2014 Einkehr, Maria-Theresa Barbist, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2013 “We are the Field”, ap-art-ment, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2013 Navigating in a Whiteout, Renee Rhodes, Animal Projections, Sasha Petrenko,
Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2009 InterMission II: Inside/Out, Adobe Parlor Projects, SF CA

2009 InterMission IV: A Crimson Hexagon, Adobe Parlor Projects, SF CA

COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS

2012-2018 Giggling Lotus Yoga Studio and Scrawl Center for Drawing

BIBLIOGRAPHY

June 20, 2010, Emotionally absorbing ‘Werk’ at UAB Visual Arts
Gallery is, provocative, puzzling, al.com

May 25, 2010, SFAIMFA, ZYZZYVASPEAKS

May, 21, 2010 Beltran, JD, Why Not?, City Brights, SFGate, San Francisco Chronicle

July 27, 2006 Food for Thought, Bangor Daily News

July 25, 2006 Eat Your Art Out, The Bar Harbor Times, Spring/Summer 2006

July 27, 2006 Snack Attack, Mount Desert Islander, Spring/Summer 2006

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 43, Guest Cover Artist

December 2, 2004 Maddox, David, Color Decoded, Nashville Scene

(Rockport, 2003) Introduction, Ojeda, O. R., and M. Pasnik. Elements, architecture in detail

EDUCATION

2013 RYT500 Yoga Tree, SF CA

2010 RYT200 Laughing Lotus, SF CA

2010 MFA SFAI, SF CA

2001 5th YR SMFA, Boston, MA

2000 DSA SMFA, Boston, MA

1988 BArch UT, Knoxville, TN