She was born in Girona in 1928, on Sant Francesc Street (now Santa Clara). Her father, from Alt Empordà, moved to Girona after marrying to continue the business of his wife's family, the Gimbernat bakery on Carrer Nou. This one died when Montserrat was thirteen years old, so together with her sister Rosa, who was a year older than her, they runned the shop. The mother gave them a very liberal upbringing and did not put up resistance to her daughter learning painting.

In 1944 she attended the studio of the painter Orihuel with several painters, and in 1950, on the recommendation of a painter, she spent two months in Madrid to study figure drawing with Julio Moisés, at the School of Fine Arts in San Fernando. She also often traveled to Barcelona to visit exhibitions and museums. Five years later she made her first solo exhibition at the Municipal Halls of the Rambla de Girona. In 1956 hse set up her studio upstairs in the bakery on Minali Street, where she taught classical drawing and painting.

In 1957, her career as a painter became destroyed when she was diagnosed with a heart illness that also affected her legs circulation. From 1960 she participated in important collective shows and all the contests of the Diputación, but she did not resume the individual exhibitions until 1970. In 1960 she participated for the first time in the Provincial Contest of the Diputación de Girona. In 1962, a heart operation was performed in Barcelona, ​​which was successful. Won a number of awards and accolades and many more exhibitions, some in the city of Girona, the last of them in 1975, a collective exhibition entitled "75 years of art in Girona", organized by GEIEG in the Fontana d'Or.

In 2000 she died in Girona and left the project of holding a monographic exhibition of the city unfinished. Her work is part of the Girona City Council's Art Collection, the Diputació de Girona, the Girona Art Museum and the Ceret Museum of Modern Art, as well as numerous private art collections .