Morgan Mandalay
Morgan Mandalay is an artist and teacher in the Arts in Corrections program Project PAINT at Richard J. Donovan State Prison and Centinela State Prison. Additionally, he manages the nonprofit arts reentry program Designing Creative Futures in San Diego, CA. Morgan's practice as an artist is grounded in his own experiences with the criminal legal system as a teenager, dealing with themes of growth, shame, surveillance and the lifelong struggle (and potential impossibility) of coming to terms with one's past. Mandalay has exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Klowden Mann (Los Angeles, CA), Extase (Chicago, IL), and BWSMX (Mexico City, MEX) among others. His work has been included recently in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Flag Foundation (New York, NY), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Deslave (Tijuana, MEX), H.G. Inn (Chicago, IL), Bahamas Biennale (Detroit, MI), DAMA (Turin, ITA), and Kimberly Klark (Queens, NY). He was a 2018 Fellow of Shandaken Project’s Paint School in New York, NY.
