Marcelline Mandeng Nken (b. Yaoundé, Cameroon) is an interdisciplinary artist working with concepts of syncretism, non-human intelligence, and the labor traditions of the Global South. As a former social worker, she’s inspired by her matrilineage of nurse practitioners, understanding caretaking as a byproduct of Black women's relationships to home and the market, sites sustained by disembodied attempts at repair. In sculptural and movement installation artworks, she unpacks constructions of femininity to critique the endurance of feminine sacrifice as a form of virtue signaling. In 2024, she earned an MFA from Yale School of Art and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recently, she completed a Dance Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library's Jerome Robbins Dance Division culminating in a performance titled "Queening The Knight: Mikhail Baryshnikov's Vulnerability and Masculinity On Display.