Ian Monroe

Ian Monroe received his BFA from Washington University in Saint Louis and his MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London in2002.
He came to public attention in 2003 when the Saatchi Gallery featured a large-scale work from the artist’s MA show. The artist was included in ‘Edge of the Real’ 2004, a group painting show at the Whitechapel Gallery. ‘They Built Upon It’ (2005) at Haunch of Venison London was accompanied by the first major catalogue of Monroe’s work, including texts by poet and art critic, Barry Schwabsky. He was commissioned by St Johns College Oxford to complete a permanent public commission for the university. He is currently working on a major commission to be located in Leicester Square in London with a completion date in 2020. In 2011 he was the recipient of the Freund Fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, in partnership with the Saint Louis Art Museum where Monroe had his first US solo show.
His work has been collected extensively both privately and by major museum collections including the Saint Louis Art Museum, USA, the Aarhus Kunstmuseum in Aarhus Denmark, the Hamburger Banhof inBerlin, Germany and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, in Leon, Spain. In addition to his art practice, Monroe has contributed essays to a number of publications, including “Collage, Assembling Contemporary Art”, 2008, by Black Dog Publications.