Monika Reut was born in Olsztyn, Poland. She lives and works in Porto, Portugal. She graduated from the Painting Faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and defended her Master’s thesis under the supervision of professor Krzysztof Gliszczyński in 2018. In 2014 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Gdańsk University of Technology. She is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto.
Her fields of interest include painting, drawing, screenprinting, 3D animation, videomapping and AR.
Her installation „CAD Paintings“ won a prize at the III Triennale of Pomeranian Art at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Poland in the Multimedia category in 2019. She was a finalist of The Largo Midsummer Exhibition at the Largo in Porto, Portugal in 2023, the second and third editions of Prémio Árvore das Virtudes in Porto, Portugal in 2022 and 2023, Concurso Nacional de Jovens Criadores at ISLA Gaia in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal in 2021, III Triennale of Pomeranian Art at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Poland in the Painting category in 2019 and of the 8th “Fresh Blood” Young Art Review at Socato Gallery in Wrocław, Poland in 2018.
She participated in various individual exhibitions such as “Free Surfaces” at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Poland in 2022; “House of Mirrors” at the artist’s studio in Porto, Portugal in 2021; “Photosensitivity” at Galeria Żak in Gdańsk, Poland in 2019; “About Distortion” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Poland in 2018 among others; collective exhibitions in public institutions such as Festival Fenda, Noite Branca in Braga, Portugal in 2022; “Tocar, Suspender, Cingir e Pender…”, at oMuseu at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal in 2022; III Triennale of Pomeranian Art at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Poland in 2019; “Swiatloobiekty” at the Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Nowy Port, Gdansk, Poland in 2018; “Jak jest?” at Galeria Labirynt in Lublin, Poland in 2017 among others and in private institutions and artist run spaces such as Prémio Árvore das Virtudes 2022 at A Árvore – Cooperativa de Actividades Artísticas, C. R. L in Porto, Portugal in 2022; Concurso Nacional de Jovens Criadores at ISLA Gaia in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal in 2021; “Sopocka Bagietka” at Willa Bergera in Sopot, Poland in 2015 and “II Urodziny WL4, Festiwal Przestrzen Sztuki – Ostatni Dym” at WL4 – Art Space in Gdansk, Poland in 2017 among others.
Her artworks are a part of the collection of the State Art Gallery in Sopot, Poland and private collections in Poland, Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.