Maya Mackrandilal

b. 1985

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Maya Mackrandilal is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles. She is a mixed-race woman of color with roots in the Caribbean, South America, South Asia, East Asia, and West Africa. Her artwork currently strives to imagine radical futures for women of color solidarity and liberation. Her writing focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor within the art world. She holds an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She received her B.A. in Studio Art with a minor in English from the University of Virginia, where she was awarded an Auspaugh post-baccalaureate fellowship.

Her work has been shown nationally, including at the Chicago Artists Coalition, THE MISSION, and the South Side Arts Incubator in Chicago, as well as the Abrons Art Center and Smack Mellon in New York. She is a founding member of FEMelanin, a woman of color identified theater collective based in Chicago. She also has an ongoing collaborative project titled #NewGlobalMatriarchy with the Chicago-based artist Stephanie Graham.

Her critical essays have appeared in 60 Inches from Center and MICE Magazine. She collaborates with the poet and researcher Eunsong Kim for essays that have appeared in The New Inquiry and contemptorary, among others. Her creative writing has appeared in Skin Deep, Drunken Boat, and is forthcoming in a currently untitled collection of women authors and artists from Guyana reflecting on migration.

She is the Fine Arts Coordinator for the city of Buena Park, where she facilitates a variety of arts and cultural programming to engage diverse local communities.

She tweets about art, politics, and culture @femme_couteau. Her internet art persona, the Goddess Lakshmi, is on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as @globalmatriarch http://mayamackrandilal.com

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Lakshmi, Goddess of Wealth

Maya Mackrandilal

2015 Pigment print on bamboo paper with Flashe paint and collage 66 x 44 inches Courtesy of the artist From the "How to be a Monster" series

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Maya Mackrandilal

b. 1985
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Maya Mackrandilal is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and arts administrator based in Los Angeles. She is a mixed-race woman of color with roots in the Caribbean, South America, South Asia, East Asia, and West Africa. Her artwork currently strives to imagine radical futures for women of color solidarity and liberation. Her writing focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor within the art world. She holds an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was a recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She received her B.A. in Studio Art with a minor in English from the University of Virginia, where she was awarded an Auspaugh post-baccalaureate fellowship.

Her work has been shown nationally, including at the Chicago Artists Coalition, THE MISSION, and the South Side Arts Incubator in Chicago, as well as the Abrons Art Center and Smack Mellon in New York. She is a founding member of FEMelanin, a woman of color identified theater collective based in Chicago. She also has an ongoing collaborative project titled #NewGlobalMatriarchy with the Chicago-based artist Stephanie Graham.

Her critical essays have appeared in 60 Inches from Center and MICE Magazine. She collaborates with the poet and researcher Eunsong Kim for essays that have appeared in The New Inquiry and contemptorary, among others. Her creative writing has appeared in Skin Deep, Drunken Boat, and is forthcoming in a currently untitled collection of women authors and artists from Guyana reflecting on migration.

She is the Fine Arts Coordinator for the city of Buena Park, where she facilitates a variety of arts and cultural programming to engage diverse local communities.

She tweets about art, politics, and culture @femme_couteau. Her internet art persona, the Goddess Lakshmi, is on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as @globalmatriarch http://mayamackrandilal.com

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  • Born: Washington, DC, USA
  • Based: Los Angeles, CA, USA

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