For Manganni, a native of NYC, inspiration is not artifice. It is hard-learned, young, uncompromising and often unjust. Manganni’s art explores the reality of misapplied structures of progress. The architecture and systems of control, and the social realities that determine how space is experienced.

By reframing perception as a socially and spatially conditioned encounter, Manganni does more than contribute to the discourse of Light and Space - he redefines its stakes. His work marks a decisive evolution, one that positions the movement not as a closed historical chapter, but as an active and necessary field of inquiry today. The phenomenal effect of engaging these abstract forms of light and space asks us to reconsider our perspective in relation to the artworks. This prompts a set of relationships between the human body and the space one occupies.

- Stephanie Seungmin Kim, Ph.D.

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.