Monika Nowak was born at Clermont-Ferrand (in the center of France) from a family of Polish artists. She lives and works in Paris.
After graduating from the prestigious Universities of Beaux-Arts and the Ecole Supérieur des Arts et des Industries Graphiques in Paris, she worked as a Creative Director for several global media groups.
Monika Nowak’s work explores her intuition: energetic, independent and proactive. Through her sexy-pop heroines, she expresses a certain vision of today’s woman, strong but fragile. During her artistic career she developed a vision of epic universes where the marvelous coexists with the barbarous, the poetic provokes the aesthetic, and the melancholic alternates with the euphoric.
Her fragile heroines are paradoxical, contradictory, excessive, but also dreamy, soft, wild, poetic and provocative. Her mother, an actress in a theatre group in Krakow, was the prime model for her gallery of female models, as well as female heroes from Hitchcock movies, rock music, fashion or science fiction literature.
