Maya Suess is an artist, educator and arts administrator. She makes drawings, installations, videos, performances and other mischievous entities. In 2016 she had a solo show at the Leslie Lohman Gay and Lesbian Museum Prince Street Project (NYC), and a work from that exhibition was hung in the Museum's 50 years of Collecting Exhibition in 2017. Maya has also shown work at the Film Anthology Archives (NYC); The European Cultural Capital, Umeå2014 (Umeå, Sweden); The Western Front (Vancouver, Canada); the Vancouver Art Gallery; Kansai Queer Film Festival (Kansai, Japan); The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (London, UK), 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. Maya also works as a “radical arts administrator” as the Managing Director of Flux Factory, where she oversees an Artists-in-Residency program hosting over 40 artists annually, manages extensive programming in the public exhibition space, and wears many other institutional hats. Born on a small island off the coast of western Canada, today she lives and works in Astoria, New York.
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