Maya Suess is an artist, educator and arts administrator. She makes drawings, installations, videos, performances and other mischievous entities. She programs and emcees an ongoing quarterly cabaret in the Lower East Side of NYC called the Unprofessional Variety Show.
Currently the Grantmaking Manager at Artist Communities Alliance, she was the Managing Director of Flux Factory, an artist run artist residency space in Long Island City Queens from 2016 to 2021. Prioritizing arts administration and programming grew out of a love of organizing, working with and understanding the needs of artists.
She has shown a variety of mediums, including video, performance, installation and drawing at the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), the Film Anthology Archives (NYC), The European Cultural Capital, Umeå2014 (Umeå, Sweden), The Western Front (Vancouver, Canada); Kansai Queer Film Festival (Kansai, Japan) among many others. She holds a BFA in Media Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and an MFA in contemporary performance from Simon Fraser University. Born on a small island off the coast of western Canada, today she lives and works in the Lower East side of New York, Lenapehoking.
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Currently the Grantmaking Manager at Artist Communities Alliance, she was the Managing Director of Flux Factory, an artist run artist residency space in Long Island City Queens from 2016 to 2021. Prioritizing arts administration and programming grew out of a love of organizing, working with and understanding the needs of artists.
She has shown a variety of mediums, including video, performance, installation and drawing at the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), the Film Anthology Archives (NYC), The European Cultural Capital, Umeå2014 (Umeå, Sweden), The Western Front (Vancouver, Canada); Kansai Queer Film Festival (Kansai, Japan) among many others. She holds a BFA in Media Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and an MFA in contemporary performance from Simon Fraser University. Born on a small island off the coast of western Canada, today she lives and works in the Lower East side of New York, Lenapehoking.
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