Maldonado is a mixed-media contemporary artist and curator from Santa Ana, California. Born in the shadow of Disneyland, his art fabricate hyperreal and contradictory environments that explore Mexican cultural tradition, counter-memory, social amnesia, and navigating non traditional space. Always with a wink and a nod toward the ironic and excessive, Maldonado confronts his audiences with complex social issues through playful spatial and material manipulations of found objects and new technologies.
Maldonado co-owned a gallery with partner Michael Weems in Palm Springs. His artwork has been collected by people around the world.
Maldonado co-curated the groundbreaking “Hijas de Juarez” exhibit at SPARC. His narrative on bringing awareness to the femicides through art and activism has be published in “Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera by the University of Texas Press.