Maya Jeffereis
Visual Arts Residency

Maya Jeffereis is an artist and filmmaker whose work in video, performance, and installation seeks to expand upon overlooked histories and acknowledge archival gaps through counter narratives, personal histories, and speculative fictions. Jeffereis’ work has been presented in the United States and internationally, most recently at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and The Noguchi Museum, among other institutions. Jeffereis has been a Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellow, an artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Center (LMCC), Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, and Cisneros Initiative for Latin American Art. She teaches art, art history, and Asian American Studies at Parsons School of Design at The New School and Hunter College (CUNY). She earned an MFA from Hunter College and BA and BFA from the University of Washington.