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.