Monica Lundy is an Italian-American artist whose lavish mixed-media paintings and installations are based on extensive research conducted in archives, museums and libraries around the world. Her subjects include historically marginalized populations whose struggles are long forgotten.  By unearthing the narratives of these people and places, she gives new voice to their plights, that we today might learn from the trials they endured.  Her painting technique incorporates non-traditional media such as clay, rusted metal, liquid porcelain, and burned paper, catching viewers off-guard with a sensibility is simultaneously gritty and luxuriant.  Lundy’s site-specific installations have been mounted in unusual venues such as Alcatraz Island, and Golden Gate State Park in San Francisco and Santa Maria della Pietà, a decommissioned “insane asylum” in Rome.  She earned her B.A. degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her M.F.A. at Mills College, where she was a protégée and dear friend of the late Hung Liu.  Lundy is the subject of an eponymous monograph (Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2023).