Manon Bogerd-Wada

Manon Wada is an artist originally from and currently based in New York City on Canarsie Munsee Lenape land. Her art practice is engaged with relational works at the intersection of sculpture, installation and video. In tandem, she often works collaboratively and on socially engaged, community-based art projects. 

She completed her BFA at California College of the Arts in Community Arts and her MFA at RISD in Sculpture. Wada has been awarded grants for projects including Counternarratives of Herstory Census, HEARTH Community Art Garden Project and Visible Voices. She has been an artist in residence at Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC; ComPeung in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and A Place of Her Own in San Francisco, CA.

Her work has been exhibited at The Emily Harvey Foundation and Border Project Space in NYC; Penn State University in PA; Whitney Center for the Arts in Pittsfield, MA; Rumpueng Community Art Space in Chiang Mai, Thailand; and in the Bay Area at venues such as Thoreau Center for Sustainability, SOMArts Cultural Center and International Hotel Manilatown. She is a member of the Asian American Women Artists Association.