Maya Gurantz
[Image description: A black and white photo of Maya, who leans into the frame from the left. She has light skin, dark hair, and wears a white tank top.]
Maya Gurantz is an artist in video, performance, installation and community-generated projects. Her work interrogates social imaginaries of American culture and how constructions of gender, race, class and progress operate in our shared myths, public rituals and private desires.
She’s had solo shows at Catharine Clark Gallery (Box Blur Commission, collaborative with Ellen Sebastian Chang and Sunhui Chang), Grand Central Art Center (curated John Spiak), MCA Denver (curated Elissa Auther), Greenleaf Gallery, and group shows including MoCA Utah, LAND (Nomadic Division), Art Center College of Design, Navel LA, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Oakland Museum of California, High Desert Test Sites, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall (curated Jane Mulfinger), Autonomie Gallery, and Movement Research at Judson Church, among other venues.
Raised in San Diego and currently living in Los Angeles, Gurantz earned her B.A. from Yale and her M.F.A. in Studio Art from UC Irvine.
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