Maya Ciarrocchi
Part-Time Faculty
Email
mayac@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street
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Maya Ciarrocchi is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist working in installation, video, performance and social practice. In these projects she uses storytelling and embodied mapmaking to uncover histories which have been hidden or lost. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she has received residencies from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony and UCross. Ciarrocchi was a 2017 Bronx Museum of the Arts Artist in the Marketplace and received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant and a Film/Video Grant from the Jerome Foundation as well as grants from the MAP Fund and the Franklin Furnace Fund. In addition to her individual practice, Ciarrocchi is a TONY, Bessie and Jeff Award winning projection designer for dance and theater. Recently she participated in the 2019 Moving Towards Justice Cohort at Gibney and the Laboratory for Jewish Culture and is the recipient of the inaugural New York Artists Equity b[x] Fellowship. Ciarrocchi earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and a BFA from SUNY Purchase.
Degrees Held
Master of Fine Art in Comupter Art - The School of Visual Arts
Bachelor of Fine Art in Dance - Purchase College
Performances and Appearances
2020 Site: Yizkor, performance, collaboration with Andrew Conklin, The Bronx Museum of the Arts Block Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2020 Solo Exhibition, Artists Equity Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2019 Site: Yizkor, performance, collaboration with Andrew Conklin, The Center for New Music, San Francisco, CA
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
2019 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
2019 Equity b [x] Residency Fellow Program, New York, NY
2018 Moving Toward Justice Fellowship, Gibney Dance
2018 LABA Fellowship, Laboratory for Jewish Culture
2018 Millay Colony Artist in Residence, Austerlitz, NY
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
2013 Puffin Foundation, project grant
2012 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space
2012 Jerome Foundation, New York Film and Video Grant
Portfolio
Artist Website
Gender/Power
Current Courses
Arts Digital Toolkit
Projected Environments