Maya Jeffereis(Born in Los Angeles; Lives/Works in Brooklyn, NY)
SOLO SHOWS & SCREENINGS
2022 Only Silhouettes Remain, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 I guess if the world is coming to an end…, Arthub Asia, Shanghai, China
2016 New Media: Maya Jeffereis, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
SCREENINGS & FESTIVALS
2024 Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami, FL (forthcoming)
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2024, Hawick, Scotland (forthcoming)
Rehearsing Refusal, Images Festival 2024, Toronto, Canada
2023 Music on a Farm Was a Rare Thing, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2023, Hawick, Scotland
2022 see me don’t see me, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 In My Own Skin, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO
2020 BRICxHome Screening, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
2019 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship Screening, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
2017 COUNT/RECOUNT: Feminist Film and Video, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2024 Hold Me as I Fly, Bronx Artspace, Bronx, NY
Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2023 Between Waves,The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY
The World Is Before You, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
Homorientalism, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Durational Reading of Isamu Noguchi’s “I Become a Nisei”, The Noguchi Museum and Sculpture Garden, Queens, NY
2022 The Moment Before a Dream, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Liminal States, Overnight Projects, Burlington, VT
2019 You were always there but you were never really there, Dedalus Foundation,
Brooklyn, NY
2018 Saunter, Trek, Escort, Parade, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2018 Home Front, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Of Tongues and Hands, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Just Being Polite, Chashama, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Vestige: 2016 Residency Lab Exhibition, SOHO20 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Interdependence Day, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2016 Fake It ‘til You Make It, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS & SEMINARS
2023 Fellow, The Bronx Museum 2023 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship Program,
Bronx, NY
2023 Artist-in-Residence, EFA SHIFT Residency Program, Elizabeth Foundation for the
Arts, New York, NY
2022 Create Change Fellow, Laundromat Project, Brooklyn, NY
2021 A.I.R. Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Participant, Leadership Camp, Asia Art Archive in America, New York, NY
2019 Artist-in-Residence, LMCC Arts Center Residency, Governors Island, NY
2019 BRIC Media Arts Fellow, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Participant, New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program:
Social Practice
2018 Artist-in-Residence, NARS Foundation Artist in Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
HONORS & AWARDS
2022 NYC Arts in Education Roundtable Grant, New York, NY
2021 NYFA City Artist Corps Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2020 NYC Arts in Education Roundtable Grant, New York, NY
2018 Artist Grant, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Dick and Lois Haskayne Artist Award, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff,
Canada
2016 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 Artist Grant, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS & GUEST LECTURES
2023 Public Program, The New Social Environment #964: Singing in Unison: Between Waves, The Brooklyn Rail, virtual
2023 Guest Lecture, “Moving Image II”, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2023 Guest Lecture, “Exhibition as Medium”, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2021 Public Program, “Questions for Future Museum Educators,” Rashid Johnson’s Red
Stage, Creative Time, New York, NY
2020 Guest Lecture, “The Remote Institution,” Hunter College, New York, NY
2020 Artist Talk, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tulsa, OH
2020 Artist Talk, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Artist Talk, Slow. Look. Live., Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2019 Artist Talk, Parsons School of Design, New York City, NY
2017 Artist Talk, Asian American History, Hunter College, New York, NY
2016 Public Program, Fallout Shelter, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain,
CT
2016 Artist Talk, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2022-Present Part-Time Faculty, BFA Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2019-Present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, Hunter College, NY,
New York
2016-Present Museum Educator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2020-2022 Visual Arts Educator, The Shed, New York, NY
2018-2020 Museum Educator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2014-2016 Public Engagement Associate, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
EDUCATION
MFA, Combined Media, Hunter College, New York, NY
Post-Baccalaureate Studies, Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
BFA, Painting & Drawing; BA, Classics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA