Marcus Manganni (queens,ny) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work manipulates both natural and synthetic light that invite viewers to reconsider their relationship to space, control, and perception.

Manganni’s work is held in notable public and private collections including the Ford Foundation (New York, NY), Beth Rudin DeWoody, the Godwin-Ternbach Museum (Queens, NY), The Foundry (Queens, NY), and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Nashville, TN). His permanent and public installations appear nation wide including New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Nashville, Cleveland, and cincinnati.

He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and fellowships, including the 2023 Art for Justice Art and Advocacy Collaborative Grant (New York, NY), the 2023 Art for Justice Individual Artist Grant and Fellowship (New York, NY), the 2022 Right of Return Fellowship (New York, NY), the 2022 Creatives Rebuild New York Artist Grant (New York, NY). He is currently a 2025 Silver Art Projects Artist-in-Residence and a recipient of the 2025 Prism Public Art Abolitionist Initiative.