Maya Mason
Website: www.mayamason.com
Email: mayamasonart@gmail.com
EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Painting, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
B.A. in Visual Art (with Honors) and English, Magna cum laude, Brown University, Providence, RI. Additional coursework completed at Rhode Island School of Design
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Echo Chamber, The Hole Gallery, curated by Loft Projects, New York, NY
2024 The Salon at the 13th Story, curated by Loft Projects, New York, NY
2023 Tower of Babel, group presentation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, curated by Anastasiya Tarasenko and Tom Levy, New York, NY
2022 Interlocutors, a solo presentation at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, curated by Amy Hughes, New York, NY
2022 Take Home A Nude, auction to benefit New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2020 ME: An Exhibition of Contemporary Self-Portraiture, High Line Nine Gallery, New York, NY. Co-presented by Juxtapoz Magazine and Sugarlift Gallery. Curated by Sasha Bogojev
2020 New York Academy of Art Alumni Exhibition, New York, NY. Curated by Beth Redmond
2018 Locations, group show at Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Artspace x New York Academy of Art, group show curated by Damian Loeb, Artspace publication, New York, NY
2018 Future Stories, The Intercontinental New York Barclay Hotel, 111 East 48th St, New York, NY
2017 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2017 Mexico City and Giverny Residencies Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2016 Three-Person Exhibition, Transformations, Sotheby’s Institute, 570 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
2015 Solo Exhibition, Constructs,Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI
2015 Solo Exhibition, Immaterial, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2015 HER: Women from the Turn of the 21st Century Depicting People, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2014 Solo Exhibition, The Body Electric, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2014 Solo Exhibition, The Night’s Murmuring Deep, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI
2014 Annual Juried Group Show, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
2013 American Work Abroad, Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2012 Solo Exhibition,What I Found in the Desert, List Art Center, Providence, RI
2012 Annual Drawing Show, Memorial Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
AWARDS
2015-17 New York Academy of Art Merit Scholarship, New York, NY
2016 Belle Arts Residency, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 Anne Crosby Emery Alumnae Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI
2015 Joslin Award for Excellence, Brown University, Providence, RI
2015 Julie Sloane ’92 Award, Brown University, Providence, RI
2012-15 Creative Arts Council Grant, Brown University, Providence, RI
2013-14 Marlene Malik Award for Sculpture, Brown University, Providence, RI
2013 International Affairs Undergraduate Student Fund Grant, Brown University, Providence, RI
2012-13 Research at Brown Grant, Brown University, Providence, RI
2012 Royce Fellowship and Member of Society of Royce Fellows, Brown University, Providence, RI
2012 Dean’s Discretionary Grant, Brown University, Providence, RI
TEACHING
Mason has been a Lecturer in Art and Art History at CUNY since 2022.
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Lunar Paraphrase, 6.5’ x 8.5’ x 1.5’ site-specific aluminum and bronze sculpture, Brown University English Department Building, 70 Brown Street, Brown University, Providence, RI
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arsenal Contemporary Art Center, Montreal, Canada
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI
Brown University English Department, Providence, RI
Brown Corporation Investment Office, Providence, RI
Syracuse University, Florence, Italy
Buxton House, Brown University, Providence, RI
Port Jefferson Free Library, Port Jefferson, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sarah Cascone, “Inside Spring/Break 2022, the Rollocking, Surprisingly Affordable Art Fair Held at Ralph Lauren’s Madison Avenue Offices,” ArtNet News, September 8, 2022.
https://news.artnet.com/market/inside-spring-break-the-rollocking-surprisingly- affordable-art-fair-set-within-ralph-laurens-madison-avenue-offices-2172161
Eliza Jordan, “SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2022 Returns with a Spunky Spirit to Midtown,” WhiteWall Art Magazine, September 8th, 2022.
https://whitewall.art/art/spring-break-art- show-2022-returns-with-a-spunky-spirit-to-midtown
Evan Pricco, “Me!: Art History and the Selfie,” Juxtapoz Magazine, May 11, 2020.
http://www.juxtapoz.com/news/magazine/me-art-history-and-the-selfie/
Katherine Cusumano, “At the Tribeca Ball’s Magical Menagerie, Naomi Watts, Martha Stewart, Tali Lennox, and More Embrace Their Inner Animals,” W Magazine, April 4th, 2017.
http://www.wmagazine.com/story/tribeca-ball-naomi-watts-martha-stewart-tali-lennox
Kristen Tauer, “Alan Cumming is Obsessed with the Teremin,” WWD, April 4th, 2017.
http://wwd.com/eye/parties/alan-cumming-obsessed-with-the-theremin-10857498/
Indira Cesarine, “New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball ‘Magical Menagerie’ Brings an Art Safari to NYC,” The Untitled Magazine, April 5th, 2017.
http://untitled-magazine.com/tribeca-balls-magical-menagerie-brings-an-art-safari-to-nyc/
“RE: She” Catalogue, Bell Gallery and Bluestockings Magazine, Brown University, 2014.
Andrew Smyth, “Exhibition Puts Human Body on Display,” Brown Daily Herald,
October 26, 2012. http://www.browndailyherald.com/sophomore-s-exhibition-puts-human-body-on-display-1.2784442.
PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
With Thomas Fink. A Pageant for Every Addiction. New York, NY: Marsh Hawk Press. 2020.
Review in Boog City by Stephen Paul Miller. Web.
https://wordpress.boogcity.com/boog-city-paper/boog-city-137-the-baseball-issue/
stretching-allegory-in-a-pandemic/
With Thomas Fink. Autopsy Turvy. St. Helena, CA: Meritage Press. 2010.
Two reviews in Galatea Resurrects 19 by Professors Jon Curley and Nicholas Spatafora. Web.
http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/autopsy-turvy-by-thomas-fink-maya.html, http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/2010/12/autopsy-turvy-by-thomas-fink-and-maya.html. December 2010.
“The Fine Print 1.” With Thomas Fink. Marsh Hawk Review (Fall 2024). Web.
“Crime Blotter 6.” With Thomas Fink. Marsh Hawk Review (Fall 2023). Web.
From “Cordially Invited.” Otoliths. (Southern Summer 2021). Web.
“I’m Bothering You So Go Away,” “I Don’t Want to See Her Damaged.” BlazeVox 19 (Spring 2019). Web.
“Nothing New or Even Interesting,” “Weightlifter’s Ghetto.” Otoliths (Southern Autumn 2019). Web.
“Cosmetic Intervention.” Otoliths 48 (Southern Summer 2018). Web.
“Post-Mortem Depression,” “Suzie Homemaker.” BlazeVox 17 (Fall 2017). Web.
“Not A Marathon.” Marsh Hawk Review (Fall 2017). Web.
“Mirror.” Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2017). Web.
“You’re Morally Inferior If.” Otoliths 45 (Southern Winter 2017). Web.
“Construction,” “August Layers,” “Assertions.” Marsh Hawk Review (Fall 2016). Web.
“Inflation.” Marsh Hawk Review (Fall 2015). Web.
“I See Why Kids Don’t Bring Their Parents Here,” “Thanks, Mary.” Otoliths (Southern Summer 2015). Web.
“Breathtakingly Dishonest,” “Red Car, Go Faster.” SET journal issue 2 (2014). Web and Print.
“Did They Dismiss School When Marilyn.” Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2015). Web.
“Waiting Rheum,” “Construction.” ditch (2013). Web.
“Tacit Charisma,” “Original Copies.” Otoliths (Southern Autumn 2012). Web.
“That Fishbowl Look,” “Gray Bus,” “Corporate Angel,” “All You Can __ Buffet.” Of(f)course 49 (Spring 2012). Web.
“Electric Flowers,” “A Huge Amount of Time,” “Molasses Tomorrows.” BlazeVox 2k8 (Fall 2008). Web.
“Bee 5,” “Bee 6.” EOAGH 5 (2009). Web.
“Bee 14.” Mad Hatters’ Review (2009). Web.
“Bee 1”; Bee 2.” Marsh Hawk Review (Fall 2008). Web.
“’Interesting,’” “Not Working.” Of(f)course 34 (Summer 2008). Web.
“He Must Have Tortured Puppies,” “Someone Could Be Hovering.” Of(f)course 34 (Spring 2009). Web.
“Destiny’s Day Off,” “Theme Song.” Otoliths 8 (Southern Summer 2008). Web.
“Bee 3,” “Bee 4.” Otoliths 10 (Southern Winter 2008). Web.
“Bee 8,” “Red Ants.” Otoliths 11 (Southern Spring 2008). Web.
“Isthmus,” “Preposterous.” Otoliths 13 (Southern Autumn 2009). Web.
“Bee 12,” “The GERD Promenade and Lavatory.” Pinstripe Fedora 6 (2009).
“Miss Problem Wheels.” 21 Stars Review 8 (2008). Web.
“Blind Factory” Long Island Sounds: 2010-11, Ed. Tammy Nuzzo Morgan. Southampton, NY:
The North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2011. Print.
“Visiting Therapist.” [with Thomas Fink et al.] The Chained Hay(na)ku Project. Ed. Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego, and Eileen Tabios. St. Helena, CA: Meritage P, 2010. 31-33. Print.
“Bee 10.” Long Island Sounds: 2009, Ed. Tammy Nuzzo Morgan. Southampton, NY: The North
Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2009. 44. Print.
“Diagnosis.” Long Island Sounds: 2008, Ed. Tammy Nuzzo Morgan. Southampton, NY:
The North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2008. 276. Print.
“Earliest Memory Hay(na)ku.” The First Hay(na)ku Anthology. Ed. Jean Vengua & Mark Young. St. Helena, CA: Meritage P, 2005. 28. Print.