Mary-Ann Monforton was born in Windsor Ontario, Canada and raised in Detroit. She was a resident of the Lower East Side of Manhattan from 1977 until 2002 during its Neo-Expressionist heyday. She lived in Brooklyn, NY from 2003 until the Spring of 2021 after re-establishing her own studio practice in 2013. Monforton is known for her involvement in the NY downtown art scene which began around 1978 as a music promoter blending her interest in avant-garde jazz with the emerging No Wave/Punk sound. In 1981, she shifted her attention to the visual arts, first as a collector, then as a curator, fundraiser, and publisher. As the former long-time publisher of BOMB Magazine, she established the BOMB Art Program which placed work in Museums and Institutions as well as organized their annual Gala and Silent Auctions until her retirement in 2021 when she returned to her hometown of Detroit, MI where she currently lives and works.