Born and educated in music and visual arts in Warsaw, Poland, Monika Weiss is based in New York where she arrived in 2001 as an AIR at Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Weiss creates movement choreography, sound compositions, installations, video works and drawings. She is part of The Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art. In 2024 her Metamorphosis (Przemiana) was acquired into the permanent collection of Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. The same year her sister project, Metamorphosis (Sound Sculpture), was commissioned by Laumeier Sculpture Park. Solo exhibitions include Museum of Memory & Human Rights, Santiago, Chile, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, and Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.  In 2004 her work was shown in a two-person exhibition with American artist Carolee Schneemann at Remy Toledo Gallery, NY. In 2022 she was part of a historical survey of Polish women artists at A.I.R. Gallery, NY. In 2016 Weiss was included in a survey of contemporary video art at Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Athens, Greece. Numerous awards include the 2023 New York State Council on the Arts and the 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts interdisciplinary fellowships.

Her work has been reviewed by The New York Times, ARTnews, Art in America, Art Nexus, Arte Al Dia, Sculpture Magazine, Prague Post, and numerous others. Books include a chapter in Guy Brett’s The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays on Art (London: Ridinghouse, 2019) and a bi-lingual monograph Monika Weiss. Nirbhaya (Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, 2021) with texts by the internationally acclaimed art historian Griselda Pollock and Mark McDonald, Curator of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2021 The Met premiered a 30 min. film with Monika Weiss speaking on the art of Spanish artist Francisco Goya and discussing her own intermedia practice. Since 2011 Weiss splits her time between her Brooklyn studio and St. Louis where she is Professor of Art and Affiliate Professor of Performing Arts at WashU.