Environmental/Virtual/Installation/Performance
monicaseggosart @ gmail.com
Monica Seggos is a Greek-American artist who focuses on building physical, virtual and environmental narrative
installations.
The full-scale installations are self-contained assemblages with a distinctive story line. For
each project, she develops a narrative, translates it
into a visual metaphor and introduces disruptive elements into a tableau. The juxtaposition of contrary elements creates an engaging, immersive cabinet of curiosity. Each environment is a synthesization of multiple mediums with the primary objective of forming a coherent whole that contains several layers of meaning for maximum impact.
A performance component is
developed for the environment as an interactive element for the viewer. The viewer is just as important to the work
as is the tableau-in fact, integral, inseparable. The works are not
complete until the viewer participates in their existence.
Seggos' work is self as well as culturally reflective in an
emotionally responsive and experiential way, dealing with the human experience,
nature, space and time, environment, memories, the metaphysical, transformation,
automediality and relationship.
Seggos (New York, NY, 1965) is
based in Los Angeles. She studied at The Savannah College of Art and
Design (2016)
ARTIST STATEMENT
my works are explorations.
self-portraits. expressive of personal transformation and my inner
spirit, fears, dreams and passions. they are metaphors for my life and my
relationship to nature, beauty and the universe. my emotions, thoughts
and feelings are transmuted through my work, which manifests a deeper, more
heartfelt, level of consciousness.
it is alchemy.
my intention: an invocation of sensory
response, preferably intense and profound
CV
Solo Exhibitions
Walking Through Liminality #1, Tintagel, Cornwall, UK, 2019
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 2: Love Is All There Is, Satellite Art Show, Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, 2018
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1: The Doctor’s Office, Venice, CA, May 2018
Self-Voyeur, StARTup Art Fair Los Angeles, Venice, CA, 2018
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1: The Doctor’s Office, Venice, CA, May 2018
Self-Voyeur, StARTup Art Fair Los Angeles, Venice, CA, 2018
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1: The Doctor’s Office, Leiminspace, LA, 2017
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1: The Doctor’s Office, Savannah,
GA, 2016 (June)
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1: The Doctor’s Office, Savannah, GA, 2016 (May)
The Broken Heart Repair Shop, Version 1: The Doctor’s Office, Savannah, GA, 2016 (May)
Ebb Tide, Byram
Shubert Library, Greenwich, CT, 2014
tu me manques, Olivier
Cave 3, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France, 2014
Heart Attack, Fahm
Hall, Savannah, GA, 2013
a
Tisket, a Tasket, a Trinket, and a Casket,
MA Final Exhibition, Fahm Hall,
Savannah, GA, 2013
Savannah, GA, 2013
Group Exhibitions
2021
Die Schule
der Folgenlosigkeit. Übungen für ein anderes Leben, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Pen Pal, virtual exhibition curated Schelsey Mahammadie-Sabet, leminspace, Los Angeles
2020
Portraits of Yesteryear, virtual exhibition curated by Badir McCleary
Eternal Sky, pskaufman gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2016
Modern Love, juried, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, GA
Tattoo Festival Exhibition, juried, The Butcher Gallery, Savannah, GA
Tattoo Festival Exhibition, juried, The Butcher Gallery, Savannah, GA
2014
Eco
Art Installation, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France
Eco
Art Video Installation, SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste, France
Small Works, juried, Gutstein
Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2013
Live to Deliver, Fahm
Hall, Savannah, GA
Current, Fahm
Hall, Savannah, GA
Vegetable, A Cotton Lamb Story,
juried, Sicky Nar Nar, Savannah,GA
Performance
Detoxification, Virtual, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Dear Sun, Thank You, Virtual, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Meat Hunger, with Ellis David Perry, pskaufman, Los Angeles, CA, March 2020
The Alchemist, Startup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, April 2018
The Alchemist, Startup Art Fair, San Francisco, CA, April 2018
Flaming Heart, Fahm
Hall, Savannah, GA, 2013
Curatorial Projects
2013
Current, Fahm Hall, Savannah, GA
2014 Eco Art Installation, SCAD
Lacoste, Lacoste, France
Residencies
2020 Homepage Digital Residency, Museum of Human Achievement, Austin, TX, May 2020
2014 SCAD Lacoste, France (Spring)
2009 Artist-in-Residence, The Jumeirah Essex Hotel, NY, NY
Awards/Grants
2014 SCAD Lacoste, France (Spring)
2009 Artist-in-Residence, The Jumeirah Essex Hotel, NY, NY
Awards/Grants
2020 Center for Cultural Innovation, Grant
2020 Artist's Relief, Grant
2020 Women's Center for Creative Work, Grant
2015-16
Dean’s
Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2014-15
Dean’s
Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2013-14 Dean’s Fellow, Savannah College of
Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2012-13
Dean’s
Fellow, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Education
2016 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, MA, Jewelry and MA Design Management
Education
2016 Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, MA, Jewelry and MA Design Management
1987 St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY BA, English and Fine Arts
Bibliography
Hager, Holly. "Ask the Collector with Holly Hager: Collecting 101-Performance Art."
Art Zealous. 20 December 2018. Web.
Campodonico, Christina. "Monica Seggos Brings Her Broken Heart Repair Shop to the Hager, Holly. "Ask the Collector with Holly Hager: Collecting 101-Performance Art."
Art Zealous. 20 December 2018. Web.
Venice Art Crawl." The Argonaut. 9 May 2018. Web.
(updated Wednesday 14 April 2021)