Maya Beverly
B. Atlanta GA
Based in New York
Education
2020 B.F.A Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY, cum laude
Residencies
2025 Ox-Bow School of the Arts, Hold Space Residency
2025 Center for Book Arts, Resident Artist
2022 Township10, Ceramics Spring Resident
2021 Archie Bray Foundation, Summer Resident
2020 Women's Studio Workshop, “Right Now!” Residency and Grant recipient
Awards and Grants
2022 NCECA Multicultural Fellowship
2021 Fantasy Fountain Fund for the Arts Grant Recipient
2021 Windgate Scholar Archie Bray Foundation
2020 Abrons Art Center Emergency Grant Recipient
2020 New York University Artistic Practice Award
2020 Founders Day Award New York University
2019 New York University Artistic Practice Award
2018 Global Pathways Scholar
2017 New York University Artistic Practice Award
2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Scholar New York University
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2026 Alara Lagos, FF Projects, Lagos, Nigeria, Duo Exhibition
2026 NADA presentation, Southside Contemporary Gallery, New York, Duo Exhibition
2024 ‘Celestial Bodies’ Chela Mitchell Gallery, Washington D.C., Solo Exhibition,
2022 ‘Motherboard’ Kouri + Corrao, Santa Fe, NM, Solo Exhibition,
2020 ‘The In-between’ 80 WSQE Gallery, New York, NY, Duo Exhibition
Select Group Exhibitions
2026 ‘Keep it 1000’, Southside Contemporary Gallery, Richmond, VA
2026 Investec Art Fair, The Bridge Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2026 Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan
2026 Heard You Say: Echoes and Exchanges of the Human Condition, Tribe Social, Baltimore, MD
2025 ‘The Age of Black Metal’, Montclair State University, NJ
2025 ‘Waiting Room’ Good Black Art, Hudson, NY
2025 ‘Soft Resistance’, Espasso Gallery, New York, NY
2025 ‘Body as a Conduit’, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
2024 ‘Manifold Lagos’, FF Projects, Lagos, Nigeria
2024 ‘Saturn Gives Structure to the Dream’, Superposition Gallery, 52 Walker, New York, NY
2024 ‘Chrysalis’, Black Girl Fight Club, Canada Gallery, New York, NY
2024 ‘The Medium Is the Message’, Southside Contemporary Gallery, Richmond VA
2024 ‘Body Language’ ATLA and IRL Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 ‘Bounce’, Superposition, Oolite Arts Center, Miami, FL
2023 ‘Dreamscape’, Black Cherry Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
2023 ‘Foundations’, Art Fair, Kouri and Corrao, Artsy
2023 ‘Ghost’, Kouri and Corrao, Santa Fe, NM
2023 ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’, Phillips, New York, NY
2023 ‘Pressing the Against the Ground, I Hear the Far Galloping Coming Near, London, England
2023 ‘Muliebris’ College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN
2023 ‘A Woman’s, Woman’s, Woman’s World’, Hausen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Presentation at Zona Maco, Mexico City, MX
2023 ‘Molded’, TRNK Studios, New York City, NY
2022 ‘A to Zine’ Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, MA
2022 Archie Bray NCECA Showcase, Sacramento, CA
2022 ‘The Universe Within’, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2021 Archie Bray Foundation Resident Show, Spokane, WA
2021 ‘Homecoming’, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2021 Archie Bray Foundation Resident Show, Helena, MT
2021 Digital Exhibition Smallbany Gallery, Albany, NY
2021 Clay Art Center “State of Emergence”, Portchester, NY
2020 Duo Exhibition, “The In-between” 80 WSQE Gallery, New York, NY
2020 “Watershed” Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 The SHIM/Bachelors Show, Digital Exhibition, Artsy
2020 ‘Through Our Eyes’ D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington D.C.
2020 ‘Carry-On”’ Commons Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Duo Exhibition, “The In-between” 80 WSQE Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Undergrad Student Arts Organization, Commons Gallery, New York, NY
2017 “Juxtapositions” Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Panels/Presentations
2026 Artist Talk with Faridah Folawiyo of FF Projects Lagos, Nigera
2022 Artist Talk in conversation with Chela Mitchell and Komuna Foundation
2021 Clay Art Center Summer Workshop Presentation
2020 Women's Studio Workshop, “Right Now!” Panel Presentation
Grants Juried
2022 Women’s Studio Workshop, Workspace Residency
Select Public Collections and Libraries
Apple Music
Princeton University’s Graphic Art Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library
Rhode Island School of Design
University of Southern California, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara
University of Miami
Ohio State
Pennsylvania State
Scripps College
Colby College
Colorado College
Smith College
The Archie Bray Foundation
Print/Press
Jareh Das, Black Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art publication, Yale 2027, (forthcoming)
29 Emerging Black Artists to Discover This Black History Month:Artsy
Does screen time help or hinder creativity?: It's Nice That
Superposition Gallery Exhibition Questions New Realities: Hype Beast
3 Must-See Exhibitions Honoring Work by Black Creatives: Interior Design
Lucid Dreamscape: A Black Cherry Exhibit: Only Child Mag
BOUNCE Curated By Storm Ascher: Art Plugged
The Future Perfect Spotlights Contemporary Korean Design, Christian Haas Makes Solo Debut in New York, and More News: Architectural Digest
Trnk and Good-Black-art-fete-a-timely-group-show: Surface Magazine
Good Black Art and TRNK Present The Group Exhibition “MOLDED”: Cool Hunting
TARIQ DIXON AND PHILLIP COLLINS ON REFRAMING CRAFT, HISTORY AND BLACK ART: Pinup Magazine
Folio-familiarity-and-form-with-maya-beverly: Broken Pencil
Grant Strudwick’s Black Power ABC’s and much more: Graphic Arts Princeton
City Lights: Get “Clumsy” with Cecily or See Art Through Our Eyes: Washington City Paper