Bio Monika Reut was born in 1991 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. Currently she is doing a PhD in Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. Her installation „CAD Paintings“ won a prize at the III Triennale of Pomeranian Art at the State Gallery of Art in Sopot in the Multimedia category in 2019. She was a finalist of Concurso Nacional de Jovens Criadores at ISLA Gaia in Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal in 2021 and of the 8th “Fresh Blood” Young Art Review at Socato Gallery in Wrocław in 2018. 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. Individual exhibitions: 2022.01 – Free Surfaces, State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland2021.09 – Keyframes, Temporada Cowork Cafe, Porto, Portugal2021.07 – Via Roxa, São Rock Climbing, Porto, Portugal2021.05 – Photosensitivity, Wozownia Sztuk, Frombork, Poland2021.04 – Photosensitivity, Galeria Stary Ratusz, Olsztyn, Poland2021.03 – House of Mirrors, Artist’s studio, Porto, Portugal2020.10 – Galeria Vitrine, Fisga, Porto, Portugal2019.12 – Photosensitivity, Galeria Żak, Gdańsk, Poland2018.07 – About Distortion, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland Group exhibitions:2022.03 – Tocar, Suspender, Cingir e Pender…, oMuseu, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal2021.11 – Concurso Nacional de Jovens Criadores, ISLA Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal2019.02 – 3rd Triennale of Pomeranian Art, State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland2018.11 – Co Creative Connections 7 movi mento momento, Sport Club do Porto – Ginasio Torres Vilas, Porto, Portugal2018.11 – Swiatloobiekty, Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Nowy Port, Gdansk, Poland2018.10 – 8th “Fresh Blood” Young Art Review, Socato Gallery, Wroclaw2018.05 – Light as a Creative Tool, Plenum, Gdansk, Poland2018.05 – Sopocka Bagietka, Willa Bergera, Sopot, Poland2018.01 – Mikstury Kultury, Music Academy in Gdansk, Poland2017.12 – Trisity, Zbrojownia Sztuki, Gdansk, Poland2017.11 – Jak jest?, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin, Poland2017.11 – II Urodziny WL4, Festiwal Przestrzen Sztuki – Ostatni Dym, WL4 – Art Space, Gdansk, Poland2017.10 – Chodowiecki na urodzinach u Grassa – happening/videomapping, Dom Daniela Chodowieckiego i Güntera Grassa, Gdansk, Poland2017.07 – Deja-vu, Galeria Oitavo, Hospital Central Especializado de Crianças Maria Pia, Porto, Portugal2016.07 – ProsAesthetis, Hospital de Prelada, Porto, Portugal2015.08 – Gdansk School of Mural exhibition, AMTAP, Chisinau, Moldova