Maya Davis is a Fine Artist and Arts Educator from Lansing, Michigan, and is currently based in Detroit, MI. Currently Davis is completing a BFA from the College for Creative Studies majoring in Art Practice and the K-12 Art Education Certification program. Maya is currently represented by Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC (Detroit, MI) and has exhibited through Bulk Space (Detroit, MI), Holding House (Detroit, MI), Art Mile Detroit (Virtual) and curated multiple exhibitions through the U245 Gallery (Detroit, MI). Davis has been published by The Studio Museum of Harlem, Anhelo Anhelo Press (Detroit, MI), and worked in education and programming at The Studio Museum (Harlem, NY), Wasserman Projects (Detroit, MI), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI), and Project Art USA (Detroit, MI). Maya Davis is a recent recipient of the Bulk Space Micro Grant Program (Detroit, MI).
EDUCATION
2021 BFA College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
2021 K-12 Art Teaching Certification College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
2020 Museum Professional Seminar - Harlem, NY
EXHIBITIONS AND CURATORIAL WORK
2024 Design By Desire, House of Raw - Detroit, MI
Word Of Mouth, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - Detroit, MI
Yard Art Show, Ceramic School - Hamtramck, MI
2023 Resonance | Reverence, Galerie Camille - Detroit, MI
Get Together, Reyes Finn - Detroit, MI
Bulk Salon, Bulk Space - Detroit, MI
2022 Limen, Bulk Sanctuary - Detroit, MI
Volume I, Good Weather LLC - Chicago, IL
Volume I, Good Weather LLC - Chicago, IL
2021 I Touched It, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI
The Group Show, Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC - Detroit, MI
Breathe, Art Mile Detroit - Virtual Opening
Project Art Resident Exhibition - Virtual Opening
2020 Project Art Resident Exhibition - Virtual Opening
The Preservation of Personage, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI
Space and Bodies With Considerations To Intimacy, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]
Soularium, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]
Winter Select: Open Studies, College for Creative Studies -Detroit MI
2019 Oculus Opulence: A Wearable Art Show, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]
Risograph: Under Blacklight, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]
Optical Action, The Hub Gallery -Detroit, MI
Cash and Carry, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]
Student Exhibition Opening, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
Wayne County SAFE Voices Survivor’s Art Show, Holding House, Detroit, MI
2018 Student Exhibition Opening, College for Creative Studies -Detroit, MI
2017 SOULFIRE Gala for Survivors of Childhood Sexual - Firecracker Foundation,
Lansing, MI
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Student Teaching, International Academy East - Troy, MI
2021 Student Teaching, Bates Academy - Detroit, MI
2021. Teaching Artist, Community Arts Partnership Detroit - Detroit, MI
2019 Teaching Artist in Residence, Project Art USA - Detroit, MI
Teaching Assistant in the Fine Art Department, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
2019 Classroom Aide, Wing Lake Developmental Center - Bloomfield Hills, MI
2017. Teaching Assistant, Precollege and Continuing Studies Department
of the College for Creative Studies - Detroit Michigan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 Post Bac Resident, Modern Ancient Brown - Detroit, MI
Artist Organizer Fellow, MdW - Chicago, IL
Teaching Artist In Residence, People in Education - Detroit, MI
Curatorial Fellow, Independent Curators International - Chicago, IL
2023 Community Engagement and Education Programs Manager, Museum of
Contemporary Art Detroit - Detroit, MI
2022 Lead Art Teacher, Central High School - Detroit, MI
Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University Broad Museum - Detroit, MI
Artist in Residence, Bulk Space - Detroit, MI
School and Educator Programs Intern, Whitney Museum of American Art -
Manhattan, NY
Visitor Services Associate, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - Detroit, MI
Gallery Assistant, Playground Detroit - Detroit, MI
Education and Public Programs Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit -
Detroit, MI
Education Department Intern, Studio Museum in Harlem - Harlem, NY
2020 Curatorial and Public Programs Intern at Wasserman Projects - Detroit, MI
2019. Gallery Manager and Curator at the U245 Student Gallery of College for Creative
Studies - Detroit, MI
2018. Gallery Assistant, Scarab Club Detroit - Detroit, MI
Studio Technician, Sculpture Department of the College for Creative
Studies - Detroit, MI
Student Ambassador, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
Contemporary Critical Development Club Administrator, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI
2017. Studio Technician, printmaking Department of the College for Creative
Studies - Detroit, MI
2015. Studio Technician, Sunset Clay Studios - Detroit, MI
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Gather - A Community Cookbook By Teachers For Teacher - People in
Education
2023 Community As Medicine Archive - People in Education
2022 Maya Davis: The Giving of Taking - Art Plugged
Sick - Anhelo, Anhelo: Marigold Project
2021 To Curate as to Care for the Community Through Access to the Arts - Studio
Museum in Harlem
AWARDS / HONORS / COLLECTIONS
2022 Bulk Space Micro-Grant Recipient - Detroit, MI
2020 Beth and Edith Ford Scholarship - Detroit, MI
2020 DeSalle Scholarship - Detroit, MI
2019 Artwork Acquired into the Collection of Kevin Beasley - New York, NY
2019 Mathilda Wilson Scholarship - Detroit, MI
2017 Michael J. Swancutt Scholarship - Detroit, MI
2017 College for Creative Studies Merit Scholarship - Detroit, MI