Morgan Cristine Flores is a California-born visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores decolonization, everyday life, detribalized Indigenous identity, and contemporary relationships to land and the environment. Identifying her heritage as Mexican, Japanese and European American, Flores works with natural, non-toxic, recycled, donated and found materials, using reuse and transformation to reflect on consumption, environmental sustainability, cultural identity and disconnection from the land. Her sculptures and installations often draw upon familiar objects and materials, combining humor and social commentary with an interest in alternative ways of living and making. Flores earned a B.A. in Women and Gender Studies from the University of California, Davis, and degrees in studio art and Art and Self Development from Maharishi International University before returning to UC Davis for her M.F.A. in art studio, completed in 2022. That year, Flores received the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize for an installation comprising three mobile sculptures—Chaparrita (Prodigal Daughter), Cholita Cruiser and Mamá Barquita (Figurehead)—made from found, recycled and donated materials. The award brought her work into the university’s Fine Arts Collection.