Manju Shandler

Manju Shandler is a visual artist and theatre designer.

She has had solo shows at Corte Dell’Arte in Venice, Italy, The Established Gallery, The Pelham Art Center, Brown University's Sarah Doyle Gallery for Feminist Art, Artists Equity, The Hammond Museum, The Honfleur Gallery, The Governor’s Island Art Fair, The Selina Hotel Chelsea, The Bergdorf Goodman Store Windows and group shows and art fairs throughout the US, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Berlin, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. She regularly shows in her communities of Brooklyn and New York City.

Manju Shandler was selected as a NYFA Artist/Entrepreneur and received the University of Rhode Island’s Sea Grant for Visual Artists, The Art Asset Award from The ISE Cultural Foundation, and was selected for The Art SprinterAward.

From 2016-2018 The National September 11th Memorial & Museum exhibited 850 paintings from Manju Shandler’s 3,000 piece painting installation, GESTURE, in Rendering The Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11 an exhibition honoring the 15th anniversary of this tragedy.

Manju Shandler's Puppet/Costume Design has been featured at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, PS 122, The LABA Theatre and at Radio City Music Hall. She has received an Emmy Nomination, Innovative Theatre Award, a Jim Henson Foundation Grant and was an Emerging Artist at the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference. She is one of the original sculptors of masks and puppetry for The Lion King on Broadway.

Shandler is the creator and curator of the Upstate art venue, The Barn on Berme.

She has a B.A. in Performing Visual Art from Bennington College (1995).