Maya Ciarrocchi

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Bronx, NY

Year at Millay: 2018

Awards/Honors: Fellow, Baryshnikov Arts, New York, NY (2025); MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2025); Wyspa Art Lab, Artist in Residence, Sobieszewska Island, Gdańsk, Poland (2024); MAP Fund for LoopCurrent (2024); BRIO Award for Performance Art, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY (2024); Support for Artist Award, New York State Council on the Arts (2024); Bronx Cultural Visions Fund/Bronx Council on the Arts/Howard Gilman Foundation (2023); LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island Residency, NY (2022); Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation USArtists International Grant (2022); Puffin Foundation (2022); City Artist Corps Grant, New York, NY (2021); BRIO Award for Mixed Media, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY (2020); Winter Workspace, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2020); Fellow, NEA Fellowship, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2019); Sichów Educational Foundation Artist in Residence, Sichów, Poland (2019); Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York, NY (2019); Gibney Moving Towards Justice Fellowship, New York, NY (2019); Laboratory for Jewish Culture, LABA Fellowship, New York, NY (2019); Works on Water Artist Residency, Governors Island, NY (2018); Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2017); Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant (2017); MAP Fund for Gender/Power (2016); Franklin Furnace Fund (2016).

Website: https://www.mayaciarrocchi.com

Maya Ciarrocchi is a Canadian American interdisciplinary artist working across media in drawing, textiles, video, and movement-based performance. By combining personal and historical narratives with spatial and embodied mapping, her projects excavate vanished and inaccessible histories. The resulting two-dimensional, time-based, and performative investigations construct new, fantastical spaces from the residue of loss. Ciarrocchi has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Franklin Furnace Fund, Jerome Foundation, MAP Fund and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and residences and fellowships from Baryshnikov Arts, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Loghaven, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, UCross Foundation, and Wave Hill. In addition to her studio practice, she has created TONY, Bessie, and Jeff Award winning projection designs for dance and theater. Her work is in the Brookfield Properties collection.