Monte Masi Explained

Monte Masi
Birth Name:	Monte Leo Lawton-Masi
Birth Place:	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Nationality:	Australian
Field:	Performance art, Video art
Training:	University of South Australia, California College of the Arts
Awards:	Samstag Scholar
Website:	Personal website

Monte Masi is a South Australian artist, curator and arts educator.

Biography

Monte Masi was born in Adelaide in 1983 and is a performance-based video artist.^[1] (Samstag page) He has a Bachelor of Visual Art (Hons) and a Master of Visual Art from the University of South Australia (MA Thesis) and a Master of Fine Art (Social Practice) from the California College of the Arts.^[2] He lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art^[3] and was a founding member of the artist-run initiative FeltSpace.^[4] He has exhibited in Australia and the United States.^[5]

Artistic style and subject

Masi works in the field of performance-based video art. His videos feature him in the “roles of critic, curator, fan and artist simultaneously, questioning how these operate within contemporary art and the complementary and problematic aspects of each”.^[6] His artworks can be viewed on Vimeo.

Awards/Prizes/Residencies

Masi was awarded a Samstag Scholarship in 2012.^{[7] [8]}

Further reading

• Huppatz, Matt (2011). FELTspace Gold. Adelaide, SA
• Knights, Mary (2010). Heartlines : 27–28 February 2010. SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA.
• Knights, Mary Alison (2011). Vague Possibilities. University of South Australia.
• Lawton-Masi, Monte (2012). ‘This will be (me) on video : an investigation into the production and distribution of online 'vernacular' video in order to critically inform a body of original contemporary artworks’. [Thesis]. University of South Australia.

External links

• Monte Masi on Vimeo
• Monte Masi on Youtube
• Personal website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Monte Masi . www.unisa.edu.au . 5 April 2019 . en.
2. Web site: Monte Masi Archives . Runway . en.
3. Web site: Monte Masi . Adelaide Central School of Art . 5 April 2019 . en . 13 September 2018.
4. Web site: About Us « FELTspace . https://web.archive.org/web/20110407021355/http://feltspace.wordpress.com/about . dead . 7 April 2011 . 7 April 2011.
5. Web site: Stadium Projects at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts . Joshua Peder Stulen . en . 5 April 2016.
6. Book: Huppatz . Matt . Felt space gold . 2011 . FELTspace . Adelaide, SA . 9780646551098 . 92 . 758607435 . English.
7. Web site: Monte Masi . www.unisa.edu.au . 5 April 2019 . en.
8. News: Curiosity pays off for artist Masi . The Advertiser . 5 April 2019 . en . 4 November 2011. Nunn . Louise .