Mando Marie

Mando Marie (1981) is an American artist and painter living in Amsterdam. She uses nostalgia as a tool to captivate her audience. Her works subtly balance between comfort and the unsettling.

She is often compared to illustrators from the Golden Book era, such as Eloise Wilken, and the fine-art outsider Henry Darger, as she paints children at the beginning of their adult lives while processing their innocence and the impending changes. Mando employs stencils for her signature twin depictions.

As the graphic style of stenciling gains prominence in contemporary art, primarily due to the popularity of artists like Shepard Fairey and Banksy, Mando's art is defined by her vast visual library of hand-painted images and her painterly approach.

Unlike other artists who use stenciling as a tool, Mando's work goes far beyond the overtly sexual, rapidly politicizing, or exaggerated symbolism of her street art predecessors.

She creates large-scale murals for both indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as works on paper and canvases for gallery and museum installations.