Monika Oechsler was born in Munich, Germany. Since 1984 she lives and works in London. She studied at Goldsmith College, University of London and in 1990 received the BA (Hons.) Fine Art. In 1993 she received a Film and Video Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain and was given a six-month residency by the Council of Greenwich, London. In 1994 she received the New Technology Awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain. From 1994 to 1996 she completed the MA Fine Art at Goldsmith College, University of London. In 2002 the artist was invited to a six-month residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany where she produced a series of video works at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Her work is both, performative and cinematic and includes multi-screen installations, multi-speaker sound environments , video, photography and animation. She is currently on a full-time MPhil/PhD practice based programme with the University College of the Creative Arts, Farnham for which she has received a bursary and teaches part-time at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.