Flávia Lima do Rêgo Monteiro was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She lives and works in Los Angeles, Palm Springs and Rio de Janeiro. Monteiro’s work embraces the contrasts found in her explorations of varied environments – deserts, tropics, oceans, urban centers.

Themes of the limits of human perception, emptiness and the void, and psychological and physical containment recur in her paintings, cyanotypes, and mixed-media installations.

Monteiro alters perceptions and breaks cognitive expectations through a process of continually reworking ideas until the pigments and forms arrive at a layered visual transformation and aesthetic poetry.

Formação/Education

Pós graduação

2013
– Mestre em Arte Visuais (MFA) – Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA EUA

1994
– Pós graduação em Arte Terapia, FAHUPE, Rio de Janeiro

Graduação

1999
– Bacharel em Arte Educação – Faculdades Integradas Bennett, Rio de Janeiro

1993
– Bacharel em Comunicação Social – Faculdade da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro

Individual/Individual Exhibition

2022
- Public Art, Claremont – CA, USA. Red on Box

2019
- Center Luigi di Sarro, Rome, Italy. A Nicca, two-person exhibition Marcela Gottardo and Flavia Monteiro curated by Steven Wong
- Public Art, Malibu - CA, USA. Box on Box 2

2017
- Public Art, Glendale - CA, USA. Box on Box 1 

2014
- Escola de Música CP2, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil. Fronteiras

2013
- The Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles - CA, USA. Carne Viva

2010
- Galeria Cláudia Spínola, Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil. Te Las

2009
- Art Rental and Sales Gallery at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Los Angeles – CA, USA. Interpretation

2007
- Brazilian Consulate Gallery, Beverly Hills - CA, USA. Flavia Monteiro

Coletivas/Group Exhitions

2022
- Coachella Valley Art Center, Indio – CA, USA. Cultural Cannibalism

2019
- Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles – CA, USA. Offal, juried exhibition by Ron Finley, Julio Cesar Morales and Genevieve Erin O’Brien

2018
- Palm Springs Art Museum - CA, USA. Artist Council Exhibition

2017
- Palm Springs Art Museum - CA, USA. Artist Council Exhibition

2015
- Torrance Art Museum, Torrance – CA, EUA. South Bay Focus 2015

2013
- Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles – CA, USA. MexiCali Biennial 2013: Cannibalism in the New World.

2012
- The Bosky Gallery, Los Angeles – CA. Mid-Century Show Grad Fine Art - All My Gilberts.
- Otis Grad Studios,El Segundo - CA, USA. MFA Open Studios
- Otis Studios, Culver City - CA, USA. Other Skin

2011
- Otis Grad Studios,El Segundo - CA, USA. MFA Open Studios

2010
- Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,Los Angeles - CA, USA. 2010 Juried Exhibition
- Open Studio and Silent Auction,Venice - CA, USA. Venice Art Walk & Auctions 2010

2009
- Brazilian Consulate Gallery,Beverly Hills - CA, USA. Primavera - A Retrospective
- Open Studio and Silent Auction,Venice - CA, USA. Venice Art Walk & Auctions 2009
- Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles - CA, USA. Open Call L.A.
- Gallery 825– Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles - CA, USA. Annual GEM Benefit
- Electric Lodge,Venice - CA, USA. Amazon Festa Night
- Rental and Sales Gallery at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Los Angeles - CA, USA. Continuous Group Exhibition
- Universal Art Gallery,Venice - CA, USA. Continuous Group Exhibition

2008
- LAX Airport, Los Angeles - CA, USA. In The Abstract
- Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes - CA, USA. Juried All Media Exhibition
- Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles - CA, USA. Silent Auction and Exhibition
- Brand Library Art Galleries,Glendale - CA, USA. Exhibition and Open Studio
- Rental and Sales Gallery at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles - CA, USA. Continuous Group Exhibition
- Universal Art Gallery,Venice - CA, USA. Continuous Group Exhibition

2007
- Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, DC, USA. XVI ART SALON Ibero-American
- Brazilian Consulate Gallery, Beverly Hills - CA, USA. BCG 2 Years Retrospective