Karina A. Monroy is a California born Chicana, mixed media artist and art therapist based in Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia. She holds a B.A. in Art and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MA in Art Therapy from The George Washington University. As an artist and art therapist, Karina is process-driven; embodying art-making as ritual, and ritual as art-making. Her work explores, challenges and embraces themes of healing, femininity and matrilineal legacies within Chicanx culture. Through needlework, painting, sculpture and drawing, Karina creates delicate images and objects as sacred restorative offerings for herself and her feminine ancestors.

Karina was the Fall 2018 New City Arts Resident Artist, the Fall 2021 SOUP grantee, and February 2026 Welcome Gallery exhibiting artist.