Monster
Chetwynd
Artist
Monster Chetwynd (b. 1973 in London) lives and works in Zurich. In 1994, she earned a bachelor’s degree in social anthropology and history at University College London, and she completed studies in 2004 at the Royal College of Art with a master’s degree in painting. Her most recent projects are two commissions at the Gloucester Road underground station, London, and at Mount Stewart on the Isle of Bute, as well as a film for Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. She has performed and exhibited her works internationally at various venues, including Migros Museum, Zurich (2022); Konsthall C, Stockholm (2021); De Pont, Tilburg (2019); Villa Arson, Nice (2019); a winter commission for a work on the facade of Tate Britain, London (2018); CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2016); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2016); and Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2016). In 2012, she was the first performance artist to be nominated for the Turner Prize.
