Marcelline Mandeng Nken (b. 1993, Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Her practice reflects how feminized labor functions simultaneously as inherited debt and sacred intelligence. She reframes domesticity as a technology of endurance, tracing how matrilineal knowledge circulates across human and non-human worlds. Through the material and psychic residue of everyday objects, the language of utility is exploited to offer ecological models of interdependence.
In 2024, she earned an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. As a Dance Research Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Jerome Robbins Dance Division, her research culminated in a performance lecture titled Queening The Knight: Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Vulnerability and Masculinity On Display.
Her work has been exhibited 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.