Animator

As a child, Maya used to sleep with a pencil under her pillow so she could draw out her dreams on her bedroom walls the next morning. Since then, she has travelled the Arctic to study Ice Sculpture, lived in a Parisian squatted bank building making surrealist costumes and performances, traversed India to study religion and textiles, and began animating as a grad student at Harvard. Before that she studied fine art at The Cooper Union and Hunter College in NYC.

Recent projects include directing the music video New Cannonball Blues for TV on the Radio, as part of the larger Grammy-nominated feature film Nine Types of Light and co-curating a 22-artist animated exquisite corpse. Maya has worked on projects with a diverse group of filmmakers/animators and artists including: Michel Gondry, Aaron Rose, TV on the Radio, Isaiah Seret, Janie Geiser, and Jamie Caliri.

Her award-winning animations have been shown at various festivals/venues and museums internationally. Most recently: Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, MoCA LA, The London International Animation Festival, The Melbourne International Animation Festival, The Hammer Museum LA, The Museum of Arts and Design NYC, The Big Screen Project NYC, The Harvard Film Archives, RedCat, The Prague Quadrennial 2011, Anilogue Film Festival, among others.

A native New Yorker, Maya was born to a Hungarian Psychologist and a Colombian Poet. She has recently completed her MFA in Experimental Animation at CalArts.