Profile:
Maya Ciarrocchi is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses identity, outsider-ness and the body as a site of history. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and in New York at: Abrons Arts Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Chocolate Factory, Kinescope Gallery, and New York Live Arts. She has been an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (Swing Space), Millay Colony, and the UCross Foundation, and has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Emergency Grant), The Jerome Foundation and The Puffin Foundation. In addition to her art-making practice, Ciarrocchi has created projection design for dance and theater including the TONY award winning musical The Band’s Visit, currently on Broadway. Ciarrocchi earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and a BFA from SUNY Purchase.
Her interdisciplinary project Gender/Power, which she co-directs with her collaborative partner Kris Grey, has been presented at Gibney Dance, the Invisible Dog Arts Center, and Smack Mellon. Gender/Power has received funding support from the MAP Fund and the Franklin Furnace Fund and has been awarded residencies from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Process Space.
Ciarrocchi earned a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, and a BFA from SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY.
Office Hours:
By appointment
Degrees Held:
Master of Fine Art in Comupter Art - The School of Visual Arts
Bachelor of Fine Art in Dance - Purchase College
2018 Site: Yizkor, Performance, Reimagine Festival, The Theater at the 14th St Y, New York, NY
2018 Solo Exhibition, Site - Maya Ciarrocchi, Kinescope Gallery, New York, NY
2017 A Remedy for a Constitutional Crisis, A Performed Reading of the US Constitution, durational performance, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2017 Group Exhibition, AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY
2016 Gender/Power Composition IV, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Gender/Power Composition III, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Gender/Power Composition II, The Agnes Varis Performance Lab at Gibney Dance, NY, NY
2015 SELECT 2015: Washington Project for the Art's 34th Annual Exhibition, Artisphere, Arlington, VA
2013 (e)merge Art Fair, Artist Platform, Washington DC
2013 Frei, Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NY
2013 Overburden, Quiet Disruptions, Videos by Amanda Belantara, Maya Ciarrocchi, Angela Ferraiolo, and Charmaine Ortiz. Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Archipelago, Works by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space Artists-in-Residence on Governors Island. Westbeth Gallery, NY, NY
Research Interests:
Video Art/Installation, Performance, Social Practice, Identity Politics, Environmental Studies
Awards And Honors:
2018 Moving Toward Justice Fellowship, Gibney Dance
2018 LABA Fellowship, Laboratory for Jewish Culture
2018 TONY Award, The Band's Visit
2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2016 The MAP Fund
2015 Franklin Furnace Fund
2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Process Space
2015 Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Program (BAC Space)
2014 Smack Mellon Hot Pick
2013 4 Heads Artist in Residence on Governors Island
2013 Puffin Foundation, project grant
2012 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space
2012 Jerome Foundation, New York Film and Video Grant