Monica Rohan has been selected as a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize for her painting, Tug, 2021 (pictured).

Launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established female artists in Australia, the $35,000 prize is the richest professional art prize for women in Australia. 

The winner will be announced on 14 May 2021, with the exhibition on display until 30 May 2021 at Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney.

Image: Monica Rohan, Tug, 2021

Monica Rohan has been selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2020 with her portrait of artist Lucy Culliton.

About the work, Rohan says: ‘Lucy is a beloved Australian artist known for her paintings of the vibrant garden and animal sanctuary of her home, as well as its rugged surrounds. I wanted to paint Lucy’s portrait because I feel we share an interest in celebrating colours and patterns found in the everyday. As we walked through her beautiful garden, I had Lucy stand beneath a selection of her favourite flowering trees. I wanted my painting to represent the natural connection Lucy has to the landscape she’s nurtured at her home. While working on the portrait back in my small studio in Brisbane, bushfires raged down south, creating a strange juxtaposition between the lush haven of Lucy’s garden in early spring and the harsh reality playing out on the news.’⁠

Image: Monica Rohan, Lucy, 2020

Monica Rohan's Head up, shoulders back, 2016, is on display at Redland Art Gallery in an exhibition featuring works acquired between 2006 and 2018 as part of the Redland Art Awards.

Rohan is best known for her intriguing self-portraits, depicting figures engulfed in their vivid settings and surrounds. Blending realism and abstraction, her works explore human fragility and isolation.

The exhibition is on display until 2 August 2018.

Image: Monica Rohan, Head up, shoulders back, 2016

Monica Rohan's Cold frizzle, 2016, is featured on the cover of the current edition of Griffith Review.

Griffith Review 66: The Light Ascending – The Novella Project VII, edited by Ashley Hay, tells tales of transformations and reinventions, traversing continents, cultures and generations.

To join our waiting list for new works by Monica Rohan, please contact the gallery.

Monica Rohan's Easton Pearson, 2016, originally shortlisted for the Art Gallery of New South Wales's Archibald Prize in 2016, is now on display at the Museum of Brisbane in New Woman, an exhibition celebrating Brisbane’s most significant and groundbreaking women artists. 

New Woman is on display until 15 March 2020. 

To join our waiting list for new works by Monica Rohan, please contact the gallery.

Monica Rohan has been selected as a finalist in this year's Dobell Drawing Prize, a $30,000 acquisitive biennial award and major exhibition that explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art practice. The exhibition opens at the National Art School on 27 March and runs until 25 May 2019. Pictured is Don't look down, don't think about falling, 2018, ink on paper, 59 x 53 cm.

Congratulations to Monica Rohan, who has received Highly Commended recognition in the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. 

The exhibition of shortlisted artists is now showing at the Whiteley Studio in Sydney until 7 October. Pictured is Maybe but probably not, 2018.

For further details, please click here.

Congratulations to Monica Rohan who has been selected as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize for her work, Wait, 2018 (pictured).

The Sunshine Coast Art Prize is a $25,000 acquistive art award for a 2-dimensional artwork.

The exhibition runs from 16 August until 14 October 2018. Monica's next solo exhibition at the gallery opens in September. To join the waiting list, contact the gallery. 

For further details, please click here.

A painter’s house at the Tweed Regional Gallery’s Margaret Olley Art Centre showcases work by Olley alongside responses to her re-created studio by contemporary painters including Monica Rohan as well as Guy Maestri, John Honeywill and Lewis Miller.

The exhibition runs until 7 October 2018.

As part of the exhibition program, Rohan will share her creative and personal insights into the Margaret Olley home studio re-creation on a panel discussion hosted by Margaret Olley Art Centre curator Ingrid Hedgcock. The panel discussion will be held on 11 May 2018 from 5pm until 6.30pm.

For further details, please click here.

Monica Rohan is a finalist in the Glover Prize 2018 for her work, Cold hands, 2018.

The annual acquisitive $50,000 prize for landscape painting will be judged by Tony Stephens, Director, Artbank; Dr. Jane Deeth, Director, New Audiences for Art; and Natalia Ottolenghi, art consultant and cultural advocate.

The exhibition opens runs between 10 and 13 March and 17 and 18 March 2018 at Falls Park Pavilion in Evandale, Tasmania.

For further information, please click here.

Monica Rohan's Rush, 2014 (pictured) is included in Go Figure: Works from the collection at Tweed Regional Gallery. The exhibition presents a selection of works from the Tweed collection that showcases dynamic representations of the human figure.

Go Figure runs until 21 October 2018. For further details, please click here.

Monica Rohan's painting, All nerves, 2016 (pictured), is included in Imagine, the inaugural exhibition at the newly redeveloped Gippsland Regional Art Gallery. 

Imagine celebrates the story of the earth as told through the human imagination. The exhibition combines 134 works from 81 artists spanning five centuries of art to create an immersive world where anything is possible.

For further details, please click here.

Congratulations to Monica Rohan, a finalist in the 2017 Sulman Prize with her work, Reluctant, 2017 (pictured). Her work will be exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 29 July until 22 October 2017 as part of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes exhibition.

For further details, please click here.

Monica Rohan has been selected as a finalist in the Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting, with her work, Into the canopy backwards, 2016 (pictured).

The triennial art prize airms to celebrate excellence and innovation in the watercolour medium.

 For further details, please click here.

Monica Rohan's portrait of Australian fashion icons Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson of label Easton Pearson (pictured) will be on view at the Art Gallery of Ballarat as part of the touring Archibald Prize 2016 exhibition. The exhibition opens on Friday 14 October and runs until Sunday 27 November 2016.

For further details, please click here.

Congratulations to Monica Rohan, a finalist in The Gold Award 2016 at Rockhampton Art Gallery.

Rohan's selected work, Uncomfortable, 2016 (pictured) can be viewed at Rockhampton until 4 September 2016.

Congratulations to Monica Rohan, who has been announced as a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2016 with her work Easton Pearson, 2016 (pictured).

Monica Rohan is featured in the May 2016 issue of the Australian Financial Review Magazine. Opening drinks for her eagerly anticipated first solo exhibition at the gallery will be held this Saturday 7 May, from 3pm until 5pm. The exhibition runs until 28 May 2016.

Ahead of her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Victoria Hynes talks to Monica Rohan about her painting process, her latest body of work and her firm ascension into the ranks of young Queensland painters to watch, in the 'What Next' feature in the latest edition of Art Collector magazine.

Monica's solo exhibition Funny Peculiar opens at Sophie Gannon Gallery on 7 May 2016.

Monica Rohan has been selected as a finalist for the Gold Award 2016 at Rockhampton Art Gallery. 

Established in 2012, the Gold Award honours the memory of Moya Gold, philanthropist and educator, who inspired and provided for this prize directly through a substantial bequest for the acquisition of Australian paintings.

The Gold Award is a national biennial event, presented at the Rockhampton Art Gallery, as a joint initiative of Rockhampton Art Gallery Trust and Rockhampton Regional Council. Designed as an invitation award to consider the best in contemporary painting while simultaneously building a substantive collection, the most outstanding work or works by an artist will be awarded the $50,000 cash prize.

The winning entry will be determined by guest judge, Chris Saines CNZM, Director, QAGOMA.

The Gold Award exhibition will run from 23 July until 4 September 2016.

A recent work by Monica Rohan (oh you pretty things, 2015, oil on board, 80 x 60 cm) painted with her distictive, immersive patterning and vibrant palette is on the cover of the Jan/Feb issue of Frankie magazine.

Monica's highly anticipated first solo show in Melbourne will be at Sophie Gannon Gallery from 10 May 2016. To receive a preview of the exhibition, please contact the gallery.

Click here for more information about Frankie.

Monica Rohan is featured in the latest issue of Artist Profile. In the interview, Monica explains her practice and emotively emotioned works. 

To read the interview, please click here.

Monica Rohan is featured in a video interview for QAGOMA. In this interview, she discusses her art practice and her inclusion in GOMA Q: Queensland Contemporary Art. The exhibition runs until 11 October 2015.

To view the interview, please click here.

Monica Rohan was interviewed by The Design Files in her home studio. Monica spoke to Jo Hoban about her background, influences and her recent artist residency at Tweed River Regional Art Gallery. 

To read the full interview and view images of Monica in her studio, please click here.

Monica Rohan's work, Jumble, 2015 (pictured) has been included in GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).

The exhibition is the first in a series focusing on Queensland contemporary art and showcasing the talents of emerging, mid-career and senior Queensland artists across a range of themes and mediums. 

The exhibition opens on 11 July and runs until 11 October 2015. For further details, please click here.

Following her residency in the Nancy Fairfax Artist-in-Residence Studio, Monica Rohan is featured in an exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery. The exhibition runs until Sunday 4 October 2015. For more details, please click here.

Congratulations to gallery artist Monica Rohan, who has been selected for the Nancy Fairfax Artist-in-Residence program at Tweed River Regional Gallery.

As part of the residency, Monica will produce works to be presented in a solo exhibition at Tweed River in 2015.

For further information about the Nancy Fairfax studio residency, please click here.

New work by Monica Rohan will be on display at Redcliffe City Art Gallery in 15 Artists, an annual acquisitive award and exhibition. 15 Artists is open from 23 October until 6 December 2014.