Born and raised in Middlebury, VT, Monica Church is a visual artist and curator who lives in Poughkeepsie, New York. She studied printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design, has a B.A. in visual arts from Bennington College and an M.F.A. in painting from The University of Kentucky. 

Monica focusses on the continuum between collage and painting. Her work combines passages of color and delineated shapes with physical materials like found papers,  sail material, and ephemera from her family archive. In some pieces she emphasizes structural materials and in others, surface activity and color space.

Along with artist Andrea Burgay she founded Transforming Collage, an artist-led collective. The collective supports projects that explore collage as a transformative practice—conceptually, materially, and socially. Their 2026 projects are Making Meaning: A Collage Symposium and an accompanying exhibition series Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley.

Her curatorial projects include: In Conversation: Sophia Healy & Andrea Woodner, Through the Student Lens: Photographs of and by Vassar Students, 1865-2011, The Flip Side: Creative Practice by Members of the Vassar College Community (2013, 2019), The World After January 20, 2017: Contemporary Artists and Poets, Imploding Meaning: Tale-less Tales about Absolutely Nothing and Everything In Between and the upcoming co-curated with Andrea Burgay, Shapeshifters: Collage to Form, all at Vassar College’s James Palmer Gallery.

Her artwork is included in both private and institutional collections including Binney and Smith, Easton PA; Manugistics Ltd, Rockville, MD; Community Bank, Lexington, KY; Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA; The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; Vassar College Libraries Archives and Special Collections, Poughkeepsie, NY; Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY among others.