Monika Kus-Picco lives and works in Vienna and Rio de Janeiro. She studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Since 2018, the artist has been extracting her pigments exclusively from expired medical products. Monika Kus-Picco´s works are represented in numerous collections in Austria and abroad, such as Albertina Museum Vienna, Museum Angerlehner, Akademie Galerie Düsseldorf, Land Niederösterreich, collections in Paris and Rio de Janeiro.