Mónica Meira (London, United Kingdom, 1949) is an artist of Argentine descent, naturalized Colombian in 2004. Her artistic practice has developed over more than five decades and is articulated around a sustained exploration of representation, landscape, and the human figure. Her work moves across different visual languages and traditions–from Pop Art to landscape painting–approached through a critical lens that reflects on art history, image-making, and the relationship between the real and the imaginary.

Through drawing and painting, Meira constructs landscapes that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, where gestural marks and human figures–present in minimal and diffuse ways–prompt the viewer to shift between different scales of perception. In recent series such as Los páramos, the artist engages with these ecosystems as spaces of high symbolic and vital density, essential to both environmental balance and collective memory. The páramo emerges not only as a landscape motif but as a visual construction that condenses questions of time, environmental fragility, and the relationship between nature and human action.

She holds a BFA from Universidad de los Andes and an MFA from New York University (NYU). She has participated in more than forty solo exhibitions and seventy group exhibitions in Colombia and internationally. Notable solo exhibitions include presentations at the Museo de Arte del Tolima (2022), Museo La Tertulia in Cali (2013), Museo Histórico de Cartagena (2024), Museo de Arte de Pereira (2007), Museo de Antropología y Artes de Jericó (2023), and the Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo in Santa Marta (2013), as well as exhibitions at New York galleries such as Monique Goldstrom Gallery, Washington Square Gallery, and Samson Fine Arts. Her work is included in major public and private collections, including the Banco de la República in Bogotá, the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, the Museo de Arte del Tolima, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, and the National Institute of the Arts in Taiwan.