EDUCATION
2001         Graduate School of Figurative Art, New York Academy of Art: MFA cum laude
1999         Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA: BA cum laude
1998         Lorenzo de’Medici, Art Institute of Florence, Florence, Italy (spring)

EXHIBITIONS
2010         Oil & Water, DFN Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2010         Fixation, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI (solo exhibition)
2010         Intimacy! Bathing in Art, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany 
2010         Body, Mind, and Hair, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ 
2010         Flashpoint: Alyssa Monks and Tom Birkner, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ 
2010         Between Realities, Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA 
2009         Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820 - 2009, National Academy Museum of Fine Arts, New York, NY
2009         Water/Bodies, Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths 
2009         Art Miami, Miami, FL (David Klein Gallery) 
2009         Bods, Rethinking the Figure, Robert Kidd Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 
2009         Baptized Catholic, Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 
2009         New Paintings, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA  (solo exhibition)
2009         Portrait Invitational, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2009         Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (also 2001, '03, '05, '06, '08)
2009         Reconfigured and Relocated, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2009         Summer Stars, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 
2009         Art Hamptons, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2009         New Paintings, DFN Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2009         Art Chicago, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009         Abstract/Nature, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2009         Personal Territory, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009         Paper Beings, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009         New York Academy 2nd Biennial Alumni Association Exhibition, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (also 2006)
2009         Small Is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
2008         Flesh Painting, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA  (solo exhibition)
2008         Liquid, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA  (solo exhibition)
2008         Dangerous Women, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2008         Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2008         Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2007         New Paintings, DFN Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2007         Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2007         Wet, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2007         Next of Kin, Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA
2006         Alumni Association Exhibition NYAA, Figureworks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006         Small Works Show: Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA
2006         Art London: Hespe Gallery, London
2006         Group Exhibition: DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2006         An Assessment of Contemporary Figuration: David Klein Gallery, MI
2006         Dissolve, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2006         Salon 2006: New York Academy of Art, NY
2006         Below the Surface: Sarah Bain Gallery, CA (Solo Exhibition)
2005         10th Anniversary Show, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
2005         Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art Auction, New York, NY
2005         Celebrate Summer, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005         7th Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005         New Paintings, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2004         New Paintings, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2004         Still Life, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2004         New Paintings, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2003         New Paintings, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2003         Figures, J. Cacciola Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ
2003         Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2002         Interiors, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2002         Surfacing, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2001         8 x 10, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2001         Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2001         Diploma Project Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2001         Separate Visions, Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA
2001         Paint the Town Red, Rene Lezard, New York, NY
1999-01   New York Academy Student Exhibition, New York, NY
2000         From Plaster to Master, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2000         Tristan and America Exhibition, New York, NY
2000         Credit Suisse Exhibition, New York, NY
2000         MFA Exhibition, Times Square Gallery/Hunter College

AWARDS
2007           New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition, First Prize, Juried Exhibition
2006           Grant for Painting, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Quebec, Canada
2004           Grant for Painting, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Quebec, Canada
2003           Grant for Painting, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Quebec, Canada
2001           Travel Grant to Normandy, France at the Chateaux Balleroy: Forbes Foundation
1999           Academic scholarship award: New York Academy of Art
1999           "Artplosion" grant: Boston College
1999           "Stylus" grant: Boston College

EXPERIENCE
2008-Present    Instructor, Montclair State University, NJ
2007-2008         Instructor, Figure Painting, the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, CT
2007                    Instructor for figurative and landscape painting, travel abroad to Sienna
2004-Present    Instructor for painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2003-Present    Private Instructor
2001                    Assistant to Damian Loeb, New York, NY
1999-2005         Various freelance commissions

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010          Alyssa Monks: Oil & Water (catalog), DFN Gallery, with essays by Eric Fischl and Marshall Price
2010          Intimacy! Bathing in Art (catalog), edited by Burkhard Lwismann and Martina Padberg
2010          Submerged, American Art Collector, April
2010          Three to Watch, Fine Art Connoisseur, April
2010          Beyond the West, Southwest Art, April
2010          Water Water Everywhere, Z!nk Magazine, April
2010          Alyssa Monks (interview), Bak Magazine, March
2010          The Layers of Alyssa Monks, HAHA MAG, February
2010          DG Design Network, February
2010          Hernandez, Ricardo, A Glimpse into Alyssa Monks Paintings, Yatzer, January
2009          Esquire Magazine (Russian Edition), December
2009          Empty Magazine, Decmber
2009          Traffic Magazine, Decmber
2009          Li, David, Her ARt Really Imitates Life, The New York Post, September
2009          Photorealistic Paintings by Alyssa Monks, Daily Telegraph, September
2009          Artist Create Incredible Paintings That Look Like Photographs, Daily Mail, September
2009          Stunning Art That Looks Like Photos, UK Metro, September
2009          Die Geechteten, Fotorealistische Porträts, Sueddeuthe.de, September
2009          Perilli, Benedetta, La rete 'scopre' l'imperralismo: ecco le imagini, LaRepublica.it, August
2009          Ayers, Robert, Alyssa Monks at DFN Gallery (review), ARTnews, June
2009          Menedez, Didi, Alyssa Monks (interview), Oranges & Sardines, Summer
2009          Fenton, Laura, Alyssa Monks Talks about her Bathing Beauties, Flavorwire.com, April
2009          Painter, Alysia, LA Art Show: Pucker Up and Kiss It, NBC, LA Around Town, January
2009          No Place Like Home, Harper's Magazine, November
2008          Stacy, Greg, "Swimmin' With Women (and painter Alyssa Monks) at Sarah Bain Gallery," OCweekly.com, September
2008          Henn, Kyle, "Artist Alyssa Monks Lectures on Painting," East Tennessean, October
2008          Alyssa Monks: Liquid, Riviera Magazine, September
2008          Baldwin, Rosecrans, "Come Hell by Alyssa Monks," The Morning News, online, January
2007          "Family Affair," American Art Collector, October
2007          Parker, Charley, Alyssa Monks, Lines and Colors, online, March
2006          New Underwater Series at DFN Gallery, American Art Collector, May
2006          Lasarow, Bill, "Alyssa Monks," Art Scene, online, February
2006          Alyssa Monks: The Texture of Light and Emotions, The Panache Experience, California, Vol. 17, issue 6.
2004          D. Dominick Lombardi, "From the Artist Studio,"
2003          Angelino, September 2003
2001          The New York Times, May, 26, 2001
2001          Rona Nix, "The Creative Devil," Piedmont Review, February
2001          The Tribeca Tribune, June
1999          El Secondhand, cd cover
1999          Stylus, literary magazine (cover & inside pages)
1996          Laughing Medusa, literary magazine (inside pages)
1995-94     Orb, literary magazine

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