Monica Morris is a Chicago-based artist who enjoys working hard and hardly working. She keeps busy making objects and performances centered in tedious, pointless, and impossible tasks. In her work, Morris embraces awkward scenarios and inconveniences, viewing each situation as a queer tactic of disrupting normative space and routine. By pairing endurance-based works with humor and honesty, she connects with viewers around shared experiences of loneliness and failure. Her practice and research at large explores the intersections of gender, queerness, labor, craft, and consumer culture.

Before relocating to Chicago, Morris received her BFA in Sculpture (2015) from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a Master of Arts candidate (2020) in the Art Therapy and Counseling Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Morris is a recipient of the School’s New Artist Society scholarship.