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Monique Ford

Monique Ford is a visual artist. Currently, her body of work focuses on portraiture of the female form. Monique has won notable awards related to her professional career as a painter; these include Best in Show- 34th Annual Bedford Art Show and Best in Show- 57th Artists of the Northeast at the Silvermine Arts Center. Primarily exhibiting her work in the northeast, Monique has exhibited her work in the tri-state juried exhibit Line Describing a Cone at the Katonah Museum of Art, held a two-person show Shared Spaces at the Painting Center, she periodically exhibits at the Ceres Gallery in Chelsea and has recently been added to the permanent collection at the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, Greece. She has worked in arts education and arts management over the course of her career and has recently returned to northern westchester, where she grew up. Collaboration and community is at the heart of her work and she serves as the exhibition chair of the Katonah Museum Artist Association. Over the course of her career Monique has been dedicated to program quality and equity. She values the holistic process of art making and thrives on collaboration among artists with different areas of expertise. Monique received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003 from Plattsburgh State University. She received her Master of Fine Arts in 2006 from Pratt Institute. Monique Ford resides in Bedford Village where she paints when she's not directing a Screen Acting & Production Studio in NYC.