Mona Dia is an award-winning painter and draftsman based in Germany whose works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally. Her distinctive figurative compositions feature animals and humans, sometimes in relation to each other. Dia explores varying themes relating to the questioning of values, the stereotypes imposed upon women, and the loss of animals' natural habitat, etc. She creates using acrylics, oils, watercolors, chalk, and collage on canvas, paper, or synthetic board.