BIO

Mimi Moncier’s career and interests have spanned many disciplines that involve various
forms of embodiment. Currently, Mimi is a practicing artist and teaches both yoga and
meditation. She resides in Pensacola FL and LA.

She received her BArch at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where she was born;
she was a traveling scholar after attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
and she received her MFA after attending University of New Orleans and the San Francisco
Art Institute. She studied yoga with Jason Crandall, Dina Amsterdam, Judith Lasater and
Keith Borden. Mimi has studied, taught and practiced samatha and vipassana meditation
since 2005.

Mimi has exhibited, in Boston, San Francisco, Nashville, Birmingham, New Orleans,
Atlanta and Brooklyn. She created and directed both the Giggling Lotus Yoga Studio
and the Scrawl Center for Drawing which provided residencies for artists in San Francisco
from 2012-2018 (mimimoncieryoga.com). She worked on architecture projects including
the Carl J Shapiro Clinical Center at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Lippincott and Margulies
corporate offices in Manhattan and the Getty Antiquities Museum and Getty Research
Center Scholars Library and Conservation Labs in Santa Monica.

Mimi also had a unique experience of helping to fabricate blimps and hot air balloons for
the first attempt at circumnavigating the world in 1984 while studying architecture on
exchange at RMIT in Melbourne Australia. Her first love from the age of six, dance,
has infused everything she has done and continues to do so.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Thank You Dying Sun, Gallery Vox, Birmingham AL

2017 The Naughty Operetta, Scrawl Center for Drawing

2010 Intermission V: PLAY by the RULES, Adobe Bookshop Parlor/Pistils, SF CA

2009 Intermission III: YouTopia, Adobe Bookshop Parlor/Pistils, SF CA

2009 InterMission I: UnBound, Adobe Bookshop Parlor /Pistils, SF CA

2004 About Color, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville TN

2003 Mute, Soren Christensen Gallery, NOLA

2003 Persona Project, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2003 Recent Paintings, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 Persona, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Members Group Show, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola FL

2023 Summer Invitational, M David & Co, Brooklyn NY

2011 Trio A, Performance with Linda K Johnson, BAM Matrix Series, Berkeley CA

2011 Trio A, Private Performance, Mills College, SF CA

2010 Introductions 2010, Root Division, SF CA

2010 Borders, Root Division, SF CA

2010 Werk, UAB Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL

2010 Chips are Great, SFAI MFA Graduate Exhibit, Herbst Pavillion, SF CA

2010 Compelled, Root Division, SF CA

2009 A Matter of Course, Swell Gallery, SFAI, SF CA

2008 Immediate Thought, MOPA, Museum of Pocket Art

2007 War and Peace, Space 301, Mobile, AL

2007 This many, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2007 It’s okay to just hang out, UNO Art Gallery, University of New Orleans, NOLA

2006 Slow Death, ARTfare, LandEscapes, Beech Hill Farm, Mount Desert Island, Maine

2006 Debris, LSU Art Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA

2005 Shin-il Kim, Mimi Moncier, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2002 System Symptom, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 Traveling Scholars 2001, Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2001 New Talent, 2001, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

CURATED EVENTS

2017 Recent Work, Kadi Franson, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2015 Wall Drawings, Sonja Hinrichsen, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2015 Mount Analogue, ap-art-ment, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2014 Einkehr, Maria-Theresa Barbist, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2013 “We are the Field”, ap-art-ment, Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2013 Navigating in a Whiteout, Renee Rhodes, Animal Projections, Sasha Petrenko,
Scrawl Center for Drawing, SF CA

2009 InterMission II: Inside/Out, Adobe Parlor Projects, SF CA

2009 InterMission IV: A Crimson Hexagon, Adobe Parlor Projects, SF CA

COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS

2012-2018 Giggling Lotus Yoga Studio and Scrawl Center for Drawing

BIBLIOGRAPHY

June 20, 2010, Emotionally absorbing ‘Werk’ at UAB Visual Arts
Gallery is, provocative, puzzling, al.com

May 25, 2010, SFAIMFA, ZYZZYVASPEAKS

May, 21, 2010 Beltran, JD, Why Not?, City Brights, SFGate, San Francisco Chronicle

July 27, 2006 Food for Thought, Bangor Daily News

July 25, 2006 Eat Your Art Out, The Bar Harbor Times, Spring/Summer 2006

July 27, 2006 Snack Attack, Mount Desert Islander, Spring/Summer 2006

Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 43, Guest Cover Artist

December 2, 2004 Maddox, David, Color Decoded, Nashville Scene

(Rockport, 2003) Introduction, Ojeda, O. R., and M. Pasnik. Elements, architecture in detail

EDUCATION

2013 RYT500 Yoga Tree, SF CA

2010 RYT200 Laughing Lotus, SF CA

2010 MFA SFAI, SF CA

2001 5th YR SMFA, Boston, MA

2000 DSA SMFA, Boston, MA

1988 BArch UT, Knoxville, TN