Marcelline Mandeng Nken (b. 1993, Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Her practice explores concepts of syncretism, non-human intelligence, and labor traditions of women from the Global South, reflecting the phenomenological impact of the built environment. Through choreographic sculptural installations, she examines archetypes of femininity to challenge the endurance expected of feminized labor as a response to the economic, ecological, and emotional demands placed on Black women—particularly in spaces shaped by absence and repair.
In 2024, she earned an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She was a Dance Research Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Jerome Robbins Dance Division, where her research culminated in a performance lecture titled Queening The Knight: Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Vulnerability and Masculinity On Display.
Her work has been shown at Macao Milano (Italy), Judson Memorial Church and The Kitchen (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Karma International (Los Angeles), Mercer Union (Toronto), and MoMA PS1.