Mónica Weiss

She was a member of the Organisation Commission of the Buenos Aires Children's Book Fair and has participated in the radio program 'El frasco sin tapa' about illustrated books, in FM Palermo. She has published articles about illustration in international specialised magazines such as La mancha (Córdoba), Nuevas Hojas de Lectura (Bogotá) Cultura LIJ (Buenos Aires) and Catalejos (Mar del Plata). In 2018 she published the Master Class "Illustrate for children, young people, adults?" at the request of the OEI- Organisation of Ibero-American States.

From 2001 she teaches Picture Book illustration in 'Taller m' in Buenos Aires where she has guided many internationally recognised illustrators through their creative processes.

She was a guest artist of the National Reading Plan (initiative by the Education Ministry to encourage reading in schools) and she was director of the Foro de Ilustradores Argentinos (Argentinian illustrators organisation), an association promoting the work of Argentinian illustrators, from 1998 to 2005.

Mónica Weiss was born in Adrogué, province of Buenos Aires. Since she was 5 years old she studied painting and engraving with Nelia Licenziato and piano with Susana Agrest and classical dance with Marta de Lourenço. She studied architecture at Buenos Aires University and graduated in 1982. She remained at the University as a Design teacher in the same career. She worked as an architect for twelve years until she was asked to illustrate which would be her first editorial work Historieta de amor by writer Graciela Cabal for the Editorial Sudamericana.

Mónica Weiss (born 1956) is an Argentinian illustrator, artist, writer and architect (Buenos Aires University). She has illustrated more than 140 books and has actively worked for the rights of illustrators and to show the importance of illustration in Argentina.