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Maya Hayuk (Born 1969 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an internationally exhibited American artist living and working in Brooklyn. She is perhaps best known for the bold geometric patterns she employs in large scale murals.
Biography
Hayuk received a BFA in 1991 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, she has also studied at the University of Odessa, in Odessa, Ukraine and at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
She gathers her inspiration from pysanka, mandalas, chandeliers, views from the Hubble Telescope, holograms, Rorschach test, and surrounding environment.
Her work has been the subject of one person exhibitions and commissions at venues including UCLA's Hammer Museum, LA (2013), The Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2013), Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2012) and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York (2011).
In 2005, curated and produced This Wall Could Be Your Life on the exterior walls of Monster Island, which is now demolished. It was a 7-year project that was funded by herself. On September 11th, 2011 she arranged the Paint Pour Off from the rooftop and down the walls of the building to commence the finality of this project and Monster Island.
From August 17, 2013 until January 6, 2014 her work was the subject of a Museum exhibition at UCLA's Hammer Museum called “Hammer Projects: Maya Hayuk”. She painted large scale murals in the lobby of the Hammer Museum, it was launched at an August 16, 2014 event with artists Chris Johanson and Gary Panter and music from No Age band. During the winter of 2014 she created a new work for the Bowery Mural an ever changing series of installed murals on a wall project established by the late real estate developer and art impresario, Tony Goldman. She is only the third woman to ever paint this wall.
Hayuk has curated numerous exhibitions, such as Apocabliss at Alice Gallery (2008), is a member of the Barnstormers collective, the Cinders Art Collective and has frequently collaborated with other artists and musicians. She's created album covers, videos, stage sets, photographs and posters for Rye Rye/M.I.A, The Akron Family, TV on the Radio, The Flaming Lips, Devendra Banhardt, Seun Kuti, Prefuse 73, Awesome Color, Oakley Hall, Home, Animal Collective, Dan Deacon, Bonnie Prince Billy and The Beastie Boys, among others.
As of 2016, Hayuk is represented by Cooper Cole gallery in Toronto, Canada.