Maya Beaudry

Maya Beaudry lives and works in Vancouver (CA).

Maya Beaudry’s work primarily revolves around sculpture and installation, exploring the concept of interiority in relation to architecture as well as the symbiotic relationships between mental space and living space. Her recent research focuses on the architectural prevalence of the rectangle as a frame and on the bodily experience of inhabited geometric spaces as organic structures. The artist is interested in both the act of construction and the softening of the built environment, relating them to textiles, tapestries, and furniture, understood as membranes between the body and architecture.

Maya Beaudry holds degrees from Emily Carr University (Vancouver) and the California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles). In 2016, she was awarded the Felix Gonzales Torres grant to build a self-sustaining studio on an island off the coast of British Columbia, the first phase of an artist residency project. She is the founder of Sunset Terrace, an exhibition space based in Vancouver. She was also the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Emerging Creation. She has participated in numerous exhibitions including Period Pieces: A Sunset Terrace Retrospective at Projet Pangee (Montreal), Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Enter the Fog at The Rooms, St. John’s, Newfoundland.