Bert Monroy (Artist) spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies, as well as his own.

Upon discovering computers with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, he embarked on a new digital career. He embraced the computer as an artistic medium and is considered one of the pioneers of digital art. Bert's work has been seen in MacWorld, MacUser, Byte, Verbum, MacWeek to mention a few. His work has also been featured in scores of books which include "Making Art on a Macintosh", " The Photoshop WOW Book," "The Art of Digital Painting," "The Gray Book," and "Photoshop A to Z" in Japan. His work was also used to introduce many software products such as PixelPaint and ImageStudio.

Bert was a founding partner in the New York firm Incredible Interactivity which was responsible for interactive multimedia presentations as early as 1986 before the terms had been coined. Presentations were created for such clients as General Motors, American Express and Knoll International. Bert was the co-author of "Adobe Photoshop: A Visual Guide for the Macintosh" and "The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook", which won various awards.

He is an accomplished teacher and lecturer who has served on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts (NY), Center for Creative Imaging (ME), Dynamic Graphics Educational Foundation (IL), California College of Arts & Crafts (CA) and lectures at many other institutions around the world including Japan. He currently teaches at the San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program.

Current consulting clients include Apple Computer, Pioneer Electronics, Fujitsu, SONY, AT&T and American Express. Bert has also done a considerable amount of film work recently for Industrial Light & Magic (including digital matte paintings for the Oscar-award winning Forrest Gump), Pacific Data Images and R/Greenberg Assoc. He is a regular guest on the television program MacTV and is featured on video tapes offered by MacConnection. Finally, Bert appears on the Deluxe CD-ROM versions of both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.