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Monika Steinhoff was born in Swinemünde, Germany in October of 1941. As a child after coming to the United States with her parents, she lived in El Paso, Texas, Alamogordo, New Mexico, and Santa Barbara, California. She attended Wittenberg University; the University of California at Los Angeles, where she earned B.A. and M.A. degrees; did independent studies at Saarbrucken and Munich, Germany; and attended the University of California Berkeley PhD Program. In 1974 she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, then permanently settled in Santa Fe in 1975. She has taught yoga at the College of Santa Fe and German at Santa Fe Community College. Her solo museum exhibits include shows at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos, the Los Angeles Museum, the Peenemünde Museum, and she participated in the Austrian Biennale in 2002.