MONA COSTA-MAURIDigital Artist | Photomontage & Digital Collage | Surreal Portraits | Fantasy Animal Art | Custom Commissions

Mona Costa-Mauri (born 1948) is a contemporary American digital artist and designer based in Florida and New York City. Her work blends Victorian imagery, surreal landscapes, theatrical characters, and dreamlike storytelling into richly layered digital photo composites. With more than 35 years of experience as a painter, illustrator, photographer, and collage artist, Costa-Mauri combines vintage imagery, found objects, photography, and AI-assisted tools such as Midjourney and Adobe Firefly to create fantastical visual narratives associated with Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow Art. Known for her whimsical yet haunting worlds filled with harlequins, animals, and ageless figures, her work transforms collage into cinematic surrealism. For Costa-Mauri, the creative process is rooted in the ongoing dialogue between artist and image — where AI is only one part of a deeply personal artistic practice.