Dereck's profile
Dereck Stafford Mangus is a visual artist and writer based in Baltimore, MD. His artwork has been exhibited in select galleries throughout Charm City, including Atlas Fine Arts, InSquare Art, Maryland Art Place, the Peale Center for Baltimore History & Architecture, and elsewhere. His visual work was featured in several group shows at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, in 2021 and 2022, and is currently on view in an alumni exhibition at UMass Boston.
Over the past few years, recognition for Mangus’ written compositions has included an Honorable Mention from the esteemed Philadelphia independent arts journal Artblog, and selection for publication in Full Bleed, the annual journal of art and design at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). In 2018, he won the prestigious Frieze Writer’s Prize for his review of a major exhibition celebrating Black artist Jack Whitten at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Mangus holds an MLA in Visual Arts from Harvard University and an MA in Critical Studies from MICA.
