Dada goes Mambo then Pop
Vanessa Monfreda is a collage/ mixed media artist born in Valparaiso, Chile in 1970. From age 2 to 16, she lived in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. In 1986 her family moved to Quito, Ecuador. In 1997 she immigrated to Indianapolis, Indiana.

The excess of junk mail and American consumerism feed her obsession with collage and recycle art.

For the past two years she has been creating paper mache creatures called loosely "My imaginary friends".

She has three sons, one daughter and is married to Keith Monfreda.