Maya Hayuk
American artist (born 1969)
Maya Hayuk (born 1969 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an internationally exhibited American artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is 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 Odesa, in Odesa, Ukraine and at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
She gathers her inspiration from pysanka, mandalas, chandeliers, views from the Hubble Telescope, holograms, Rorschach tests, and the surrounding environment.
Her work has been the subject of solo 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, she curated and produced This Wall Could Be Your Life on the exterior walls of Monster Island, which is now demolished. It was a self-funded 7-year project. On September 11, 2011, she arranged the Paint Pour Off, an event in which paint was poured from the rooftop and down the walls of the building to mark 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, in which the project was opened with an August 16, 2014, event with artists Chris Johanson and Gary Panter and music from the band No Age.
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