Born in Portland, Oregon, John Monti received a BS from Portland State University and an MFA from the Pratt Institute. Monti has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally both in museums and galleries and has completed public commissions and set-designs for dance. Monti himself best describes his sculpture by the utilization of “decorative, pop and minimalist strategies that both critique and embrace aspects of pleasure and the commercial aesthetic.” His sculpture is highly refined, slick and intended to comment on the commercial/aesthetic cues of seduction and the failed utopian vision that engendered them.

Monti’s exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center, White Columns, Artists Space, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, and the Wakita Museum of Art, Karuizawa, Japan. His work is included in major private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Yale University Art Museum, Israel Museum, Israel and the Wakita Museum of Art, Japan. 

Currently, Monti is a Professor of Sculpture at the Pratt Institute and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

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