Cathy de Monchaux was born in 1960 in London (United Kingdom), where she lives and works. She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

A major figure of the British art scene, Cathay de Monchaux graduated from Goldsmiths College, the birthplace of the Young British Artists movement, where she distinguished herself by creating work that refused sensationalism. In 1988, she participated in the exhibition “Promises, Promises” at the Serpentine South Gallery in London, which showcased a new emerging scene.

Nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize in 1998, Cathy de Monchaux exhibited regularly in international institutions throughout the 1990s. She held numerous solo exhibitions (Chisenhale Gallery, 1993; Whitechapel, 1997; Hirshhorn Museum, 2000…), participated in group exhibitions (“Feminine – Masculine, the Sex of Art,” Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1996; “Le tour du jour en quatre-vingts mondes,” CAPC, Bordeaux, 2020) and international biennials  (Sydney, 1992; Sao Paulo, 1994). She has notably collaborated with Jennifer Flay Gallery (Paris) and Sean Kelly Gallery (New York).

In 1996, Cathy de Monchaux contributed to Peter Gabriel’s interactive CD-ROM EVE, alongside Yayoi Kusama, Helen Chadwick, and Nils-Udo. In 2007, Newnham College (Cambridge) in London unveiled a public commission by Cathy de Monchaux, a narrow bronze bas-relief several meters high. It was there, in 1928, that Virginia Woolf gave her famous lecture that inspired her novel A Room of One’s Own, published the following year.