CHRIS MONA
I am deeply and equally in love with cultural and natural histories. I see how they embrace and collide, reverberating all around us. The layered images that I unleash are at once humorous, quotidian, oddly beautiful, and pleasingly discomforting. I work consistently in painting, printmaking, drawing, and digital media.

BIOGRAPHY
Chris Mona was born in Washington, DC in 1961, graduating from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983, and from Pratt Institute with a Master of Fine Arts in 1985. Mona completed the Aluminum Plate Lithography Workshop at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, under the direction of Rodney Hamon. He was full professor of art at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD for 38 years, where he directed its printmaking studio, Aqua Regia Press. Mona has received grants from Artists Space, NY, NY, and the Maryland State Arts Council. His work is in public collections, including Homestead National Monument, Beatrice, Nebraska; The Rooms Art Gallery of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada; College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD; Columbia College, Chicago, Ill; and Franklin Furnace Archive, NY, NY. Recent national juried shows include “28th Parkside National Print Exhibition,” U. Wisconsin Parkside; “Ink Press Repeat” Wm. Patterson University, NJ; and “Contested Spaces,” Harnett Museum of Art, U. of Richmond. Solo exhibitions include “Millennial Dreams and Dramas,” Creative Alliance, Baltimore; “Out of this World,” Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, Baltimore; and most recently “in the time of not yet,” with collaborations with Helen Frederick, Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, MD, and "Chasm: Intuition, Risk, and Certainty," collaborations with Helen Frederick, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA. His collaborative book project with Helen Frederick “The Stone Seeker/Prescient Heart” is represented by Stellar Highway, Brooklyn, NY. Mona established Attitude Press, a lithographic, intaglio, relief, letterpress and screen print studio in Millersville, MD in 2026.