Maya Ciarrocchi is a Canadian American interdisciplinary artist working across media in drawing, textiles, video, and movement-based performance. By combining personal and historical narratives with spatial and embodied mapping, her projects excavate vanished and inaccessible histories. The resulting two-dimensional, time-based, and performative investigations construct new, fantastical spaces from the residue of loss.
Ciarrocchi has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Franklin Furnace Fund, Jerome Foundation, MAP Fund and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and residences and fellowships from Baryshnikov Arts, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Loghaven, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Millay Arts, UCross Foundation, and Wave Hill. In addition to her studio practice, she has created TONY, Bessie, and Jeff Award-winning projection designs for dance and theater. Her work is in the Brookfield Properties collection.
At MacDowell in 2020, she developed video, prints and drawings for Site: Yizkor, an interdisciplinary project that explores the physical and emotional manifestation of loss though text, video, and music.
During her 2024 residency, she created drawings, paintings and textiles to be included in her in-progress performance installation, LoopCurrent, which will be further developed during a spring 2025 residency at Baryshnikov Arts, NYC. In 2024, Ciarrocchi received support for LoopCurrent from Map Fund, NYSCA, Canada Council on the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts as well as residency support from Loghaven (TN), and Wyspa Art Lab (PL).
