Born in 1994 in New York, USA
Lives and works in New Haven, USA
Maya Perry spent her formative years as a drummer/singer in the experimental duo “Laila” and lives as a painter/performer. She’s performed both solo and collaboratively in venues and art spaces across cities such as Tel Aviv, Haifa, New York, Berlin, Leipzig, and etc. She became a prominent figure in the counterculture art scene in Tel Aviv, where she lived for seventeen years before returning to the states for her degree. Her work and experimental films have been installed and projected at festivals, museums and galleries. Her goal is to create sources of light where the internal and external can exist simultaneously and forgotten, repressed, and/or present experiences can come to the surface. She centers moments of contemplation, repetition, passivity and rest. Her practice oscillates from mediums and techniques such as painting to 16mm film to stop-motion animation, writing, sound, and performance. She is recently incorporating themes of looping, record-making and recording into her practice and wishes to highlight the Nurodivergent perspective in relation to time, space and experience.
