For over twenty years, artist and designer Minette Mangahas has created experiences that seek to capture moments of transcendence–to give people new ways of seeing and understanding themselves and our world.

Trained as an anthropologist, she uses historical and cultural research as the basis for projects and often sheds light on lost narratives in her art, books, public projects, and exhibitions. As an avid technologist, she pushes the limits of emerging media, and designs experiences, products and services that help to create a more accessible, inclusive, and regenerative world.

Minette’s work has been featured internationally at venues such as the Chinese Biennial in Beijing, the Pacific Asia Museum in Los Angeles, Project Row Houses in Houston, the Oakland Museum of California, the Arario Gallery in New York and in Tricycle Magazine.

She received degrees from Duke University (BA, Political Science and Cultural Anthropology) and New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts (MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program). She is an avid guest speaker and was associate lecturer at the California College of the Arts. A Fulbright Fellow at the Rajamangala University of Technology in Bangkok, she has also received the John Hope Franklin Award from the Center for Documentary Studies, the Rockefeller Flow Fund Award, the Ford Foundation Mentorship Award, the LEF Foundation Artist Grant, among others.

She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.