Fernando Mastrangelo

Fernando Mastrangelo is a sculptor working at the intersection of material, geography, and memory. Born in the United States to parents of Uruguayan descent, he spent his formative years in Monterrey, Mexico, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. An itinerant childhood shaped by shifting landscapes that would later become central to his practice.

Mastrangelo studied sculpture at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, earning his B.F.A. in 2002, followed by an M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004, with additional studies at the Pilchuck Glass School. After moving to New York, he worked under artist Matthew Barney, an experience that helped shape his early sculptural language. His practice is distinguished by the hand-working of unconventional materials—including sand, salt, silica, and crushed and powdered glass—layered and cast into forms that evoke geological time and the forces of the natural world.Since his 2006 debut solo exhibition in New York, Mastrangelo has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally, with work entering the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. His work has been presented at institutions including Socrates Sculpture Park and the Bass Museum, and featured in publications including The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Vogue, WSJ. Magazine, T Magazine, Wallpaper*, and Artforum.

In 2014, Mastrangelo expanded his sculptural language into functional forms, exhibiting his first collection at Sight Unseen OFFSITE. The following year, he became the first independent artist featured at Collective Design Fair, contributing to a broader shift toward artists working directly across the worlds of art, design, and collecting. He has since undertaken commissions for Dior, Fendi, Stella McCartney, and Audemars Piguet, including VIP environments for Art Basel in Miami, Basel, and Hong Kong. In 2017, he founded In Good Company, a nonprofit platform supporting emerging artists and designers.

A 4,000-mile motorcycle journey from Santiago, Chile, through Patagonia marked a turning point in Mastrangelo’s practice, inspiring his 2016 Drift Collection and deepening his engagement with land, borders, and territory. A decade later, these questions come to full expression in Territories, his first major solo exhibition in ten years and his debut with Cristina Grajales Gallery.