A native of New York, Lola Montes is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses painting, sculpture, film and design. She received her BFA in 2008 from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and is today based in Sicily and Milan. Montes has exhibited her pieces at a number of venues, including the Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany; Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott; Vito Schnabel Ga lery, New York; Nino Mier Ga lery, Los Angeles; Nilufar Gallery, Milan; Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens; Zuecca Projects at the Venice Biennale; and The Hole, New York. She serves on the Board of Advisors for Anthology Film Archives and has directed music videos for Lou Reed, Benjamin Clementine and Nike. Montes has also directed short films on fellow artists Luigi Ontani, Rene Ricard, Jonas Mekas, Vahakn Arslanian and Julian Schnabel. Her design work includes textiles for Alice & Olivia, Zac Posen and Max Mara as wel as album covers for John Frusciante. Montes’ practice draws on metaphors from her own mythology. She works with the unconscious to create psychic images that consist of timeless patterns to create an exquisite orderliness. By painting the subject’s spirit, she translates a primitive timelessness into other realities.