Mariah Moneda (b. 1997) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Madison, WI. Her work examines the convoluted histories of colonial impact on Filipino culture through material metaphors, contextualizing third-culture communities, identity, and displacement. Her foundations in photography serve as the record for material exploration in textiles, installation, and social practice.

Moneda has a BFA in Photography from the Herberger Institute for Design at Arizona State University, an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Education and is currently an MFA graduate student in Design and Material Studies at the School of Human Ecology, both at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. At UWM She holds three fellowships in research and art as a Graduate Research Advanced Opportunity Fellow, an Education Graduate Research Fellow, and a Theodora Herfulth Kubly Minority Fellow in art.

Moneda’s work has been shown in multiple solo and group exhibitions. Selections include The Distance to Kababayan, Gallery 7, Madison, WI (2024); Magmula sa Lupa/From the Earth, Backspace Gallery, Madison, WI (2025); Wisconsin Visual Artist Biennial, Museum of Wisconsin Art, Madison, WI (2026); Afterlives: Material Stories, Lynn Mecklenburge Textile Gallery, Madison, WI (2025); Reciprocity: Expanding Ideas of Community, Kimball Visual Art Center, Ogden Utah (2024); Trout Museum of Art, Curators Award for the Annual Juried Exhibition, Appleton, WI (2024) Revisiting the Family Album: Stories that Bind Us, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (2023), with work in collections at Arizona State University’s Northlight Gallery, Ballet Arizona, and Nadiana Art Gallery.

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