Monika Meler was born in Brodinca, Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1990. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Printmaking from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She continued to pursue Printmaking at Purdue University, where she received a Master of Arts Degree. She then continued her studies at the Tyler School of Art, where she spent a year studying in Rome, Italy. She received her Master of Fine Art in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art.

Monika Meler has participated in various national and international exhibitions, including the Lessedra World Print Annual in Bulgaria and Sixty Square Inches, an international printmaking exhibition. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Academy of Fine Art in Poznan, Poland and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Recently, she completed an artist residency with the Cork Printmakers in Ireland, where she also taught a relief printmaking workshop.