ARTIST BIO

CURRICULUM VITAE

MONICA COSTA

Email:                           costa.fineart@gmail.com              

MONICA COSTA        

Born  Australia

2000 – 1996                  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

                                    Masters in Fine Art, Melbourne.   

1994 - 1991                  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

                                    Bachelor of Fine Art, Melbourne

1988 - 1985                  Melbourne College of Advanced Education,

                                    Bachelor of Education. Melbourne.        

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026.                                  'Stella Maris' CNG Gallery, Brighton, Melbourne

2024.                                   'Silent Symphony', Artemisia, Windsor, Melbourne

2007                            “Sticks and Stones”, The Bridge Gallery, Hurstbridge,Victoria.

2002                            “Play”, Glen Eira City Gallery Caulfield, Melbourne.

2002                            “Balance”, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Red Gallery, Fitzroy North, Melbourne

2026 CNG Gallery, Brighton, Melbourne

2026 26 Advantage, Highett, Melbourne

2026 Feel Good Exhibition, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne, Highly Commended

2025 Art Fair 2025 Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne

2025 MOMENTO Group Exhibition, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne,

2025 MONDIAL ART ACADEMIA, French Artistic Association, International Competition, France

2025  Feel Good Art Prize 2025, Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne, Highly Commended,

2024. Melbourne, Artemisia, "Random" Windsor, Melbourne Gallery

2024. Unbound, Northcote, Melbourne

2024. Artemisia. Windsor, Melbourne

2024. Victor Harbor Art Show. South Australia

2024. Sorrento Art Exhibition.

2023                    Victor Harbor Art Show, South Australia

2023                    Sorrento, Melbourne 

2022                    Mornington Art Exhibition, Melbourne

2022                    Victor Harbor Art Show, South Australia

2020.                   Victor Harbor Art Show, South Australia

2019                    Victor Harbor Art Show, South Australia

2018                    Bayside Art Show, Melbourne

2018                    Camberwell Art Show,Melbourne

2018                    Mornington Art Exhibition, Melbourne

2018                    Victor Harbor Art Show, South Australia

2017                    Linden Postcard Show, Melbourne

2017                    Bayside Art Show, Melbourne

2017                    Camberwell Art Show,Melbourne

2016                   “Spring”, Malvern Art Society, Melbourne.

2014                    “Australia Exhibition 2014”, Malvern Art Society Melbourne.                         

1999                    “Show Casing the Arts.” Hobsons Bay, Williamstown, Melbourne.

1996                     Craft Victoria “Potter's Showcase" Ringwood, Melbourne.

1996                    Sunbury University, Dilkara Arts Festival, Melbourne. 

1995                    “New Wave”,Victorian Ceramic Group Exhibition, Melbourne.

1995                     Fringe Festival, Southgate. Melbourne.

1994                     Westpac Gallery “The 18th Annual Walkers

1994                     Ceramic Award Exhibition,” Melbourne.

1994                     Craft Victoria "Fresh" 1994, Fitzroy.                    

1994                     Meat Market Graduate Exhibition, Nth Melbourne

1994                     Meat Market  R.M.I.T. Ceramics, Nth Melbourne.

1994                     R.M.I.T. Gallery, Ceramics, Melbourne.

1989                     Northcote Gallery, "The Formalist” Northcote, Melbourne.

1989                     Mornington Peninsula, "Craft Event", Balnarring,Victoria.

AWARDS

2026                      'Summer Small Works', People's Choice Award

2025                       'FEEL GOOD ART PRIZE,  Quadrant Gallery, Melbourne, (Sculpture -Highly Commended

                               Judges Corbett Lyon, Damian Smith)

2025.                    'INTERNATIONAL AWARD', MONDIAL ART ACADEMIA,

                               French Artistic Association Highly Commended 43 Judges) Membership-Application)

2014                  MALVERN ARTIST SOCIETY,(Highly Commended).

1999                  HOBSONS BAY SCULPTURE, Williamstown. (Finalist)

1996                  DILKARA ARTS FESTIVAL, (Highly Commended).                               

1995                  TED SECOMBE AWARD, "New Wave Exhibition",(Winner)

1995                  FRINGE FESATIVASL, Southgate,Melbourne.(Winner).

COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS

                        BENSONS, Property Developers (AUSTRALIA).

                        RENOVOGUE, INTERIOR DESIGNER AND STYLISTS(MELBOURNE)

                        JO McINTYRE AT A BEAUTIFUL HOME, INTERIOR STYLISTS(MELBOURNE)

                        WILLIAMSTOWN HOBSONS BAY SCULPTURE FINALIST, (MELBOURNE)

                        PRIVATE COLLECTION/COMISSION, NEW YORK 

                        PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN AUSTRALIA AND OVERSEAS (ITALY, JAPAN, BELGIUM)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2014                Interior Design Company, RenoVogue, www.renovogue.com.au

2007                Melbourne Weekly, Eastern October 29, 2007

2007                Diamon Valley, LEADER NEWSPAPER, October, 2007

2002                Port Phillip Caulfield, LEADER NEWSPAPER, March, 2002

2002                Glen Eira LEADER NEWSPAPER, March, 2002

2000                RMIT UNIVERSITY, School of Art and Culture, Faculty of Art and Design Publication, 2000

1996                VICTORIAN CERAMIC, MAGAZINE NEWSLETTER, APRIL 1996

1994                GRADUATE EXHIBITION, Faculty of Art and Design Publication, November, 1994.