André Magaña
b. Lagunitas, CA, USA, 1992Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
André Magaña’s work considers the use of materials, images, and signs used in the generation of capital under major global enterprises. He is interested in the technical, utilitarian, and operational aspects of production, maintenance, and growth of the post digital industrial economy. Magaña foregrounds his subjects’ inextricable relationship to capital and post colonial geopolitics, exposing highly specific systems as corollaries for far reaching power dynamics. He often creates work in dialogue with his own wage labor by utilizing or referencing economies of material which are embedded into his activities as a worker.
Magaña has had solo exhibitions with Veronica (Seattle, WA, USA); Parent Company (New York City, USA); King's Leap (New York City, USA); Prairie (Chicago, IL, USA); and Kendra Jayne Patrick (Bern, Switzerland), among others. His work has been included in Greater New York at MoMA PS1 (New York City, USA); Yeh Art Gallery (New York City, USA); Timeshare (Los Angeles, CA, USA); guadalajara90210 (Mexico City, MX); foreign & domestic (New York City, USA); Magenta Plains (New York City, USA); PUBLIC (London, UK); American Medium (New York City, USA); in lieu (Los Angeles, CA, USA); and Sculpture Center (New York City, USA), among others.
He has been profiled in Frieze, 4Columns, ARTNews, Art in America, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, and more.
Curriculum Vitae
Five OH55FODMBs, 2026Five weather-damaged Samsung OH55F outdoor displays with custom mounts, 49.6 x 143.75 x 5.3"
MM LED Wall, 2026
giclée print on cotton rag, mounted on sintra
42 × 74 in. (framed)
106.7 × 188 cm
Untitled, 2025
3D-printed gold exact fascimilie of a classic Cartier Love Bracelet collection
193 grams of 24 carat gold
1 5/8 x 4 1/8 x 2 1/8 in
4 x 10 x 5 cm
Installation view, sunsetting, at Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, 29 May - 18 July 2026
Debt Editions
archival pigment prints on Bristol, 12 x 9, 30.5 x 23
Installation view, ANDRÉ MAGAÑA Armory Show 2025, New York City,
Wrapped Surprise Egg Blow Mold (Top + Bottom) in Mid-Pose Efficiency-Safe-Deposit-Box Prototypes, 2025Powder coated steel, aluminum, FDA silicone 6.25 x 60 x 11.13 in (15.88 × 152.4 × 28.27 cm)
Untitled (Nesquik) (2 Up, Reverse Engineered Bottle Blowing Mold), 2023
Milled steel, brass, teflon
10 x 26¾ x 4 in
25.40 x 67.95 x 10.16 cm
Browntint No. 1, 2024
Giclee Print on Cotton Rag
18⅞ x 16⅞ in (framed)
48 x 43 cm (framed)
Browntint No. 2, 2024
Giclee Print on Cotton Rag
18⅞ x 16⅞ in (framed)
48 x 43 cm (framed)
Browntint No. 3, 2024
Giclee Print on Cotton Rag
18⅞ x 16⅞ in (framed)
48 x 43 cm (framed)
American Standard #1, 2023
garbage disposers, irrigation pumps, hoses, hose valves, brass adapters, plumbing reducers, PVC adapters, outlet splitter.
27½ x 47¼ x 18⅞ in
70 x 120 x 48 cm
Tracking fixture (inactive) (47.5771805, -122.2978799), 2023
Pan-tilt unit, concrete, hardware
53¼ x 14½ x 8½ in
135.25 x 36.83 x 21.59 cm
Untitled (Milo) (Rotary Mold for Industrial Production Line Cookie Production Machine), 2023
Steel, aluminum, Brass, teflon, bearings, custom steel mounting bracket
29½ x 7⅞ x 8⅞ in
75 cm x 20 cm x 22.5 cm
• Untitled (Carlos V - Limited Release) (Design Validation Prototype: Vertical Cold Storage and Small Scale Reproduction), 2023
• Untitled (Abuelita) Design Validation Prototype: Vertical Cold Storage and Small Scale Reproduction), 2023
• Untitled (CRUNCH - LATAM) (Design Validation Prototype: Vertical Cold Storage and Small Scale Reproduction), 2023
All: Milled aluminum, industrial red FDA silicone, laser cut lexan, rubber gaskets, rubber washers, thermoelectric peltier module assemblies, cooling fans, power supplies, NEMA power cables, heat shrink cable wrap, neodymium magnets, various hardware
appx: 12¾ x 21⅛ x 13 in.
32.38 x 53.59 x 33.02 cm.
Installation views, Riquísimo,at Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, February 2023