RESUME

Maya Davis is from Lansing, Michigan, currently living and working in Detroit, MI. Davis is a graduate of  College for Creative Studies' Fine Arts and Arts Education programs. Maya has exhibited works at Reyes Finn  (Detroit, MI), Good Weather (Chicago, IL), Spaysky Fine Art Gallery (Detroit, MI), been published by Anhelo Anhelo Press (Detroit, MI), and  The Studio Museum (Harlem, NY). Professionally, Davis has worked alongside institutions such as The Whitney Museum (Manhattan, NY), The Studio Museum in Harlem (Harlem, NY), and is currently the Education and Community Engagement Manager at The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit, MI).

EDUCATION

2024 Detroit Curatorial Seminar, Independent Curators International - Detroit, MI

2021 BFA College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI

2021 K-12 Art Teaching Certification College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI

2020 & 2021 Museum Professional Seminar - Harlem, NY

EXHIBITIONS AND CURATORIAL WORK

2024 Word Of  Mouth, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - Detroit, MI

Yard Art Show, Ceramic School -  Hamtramck, MI

2023 Resonance | Reverence, Galerie Camille - Detroit, MI

Get Together, Reyes Finn - Detroit, MI

Bulk Salon, Bulk Space - Detroit, MI

2022 Limen, Bulk Sanctuary - Detroit, MI

Volume I, Good Weather LLC - Chicago, IL

2021 I Touched It, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI

The Group Show, Spaysky Fine Art Gallery LLC - Detroit, MI

Breathe, Art Mile Detroit - Virtual Opening

Project Art Resident Exhibition - Virtual Opening

2020 Project Art Resident Exhibition - Virtual Opening

The Preservation of Personage, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI

Space and Bodies With Considerations To Intimacy, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]

Soularium, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]

Winter Select: Open Studies, College for Creative Studies -Detroit MI

2019 Oculus Opulence: A Wearable Art Show, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]

Risograph: Under Blacklight, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]

Optical Action, The Hub Gallery -Detroit, MI

Cash and Carry, U245 Gallery - Detroit, MI [Curator]

Student Exhibition Opening, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI

Wayne County SAFE Voices Survivor’s Art Show, Holding House, Detroit, MI 

2018 Student Exhibition Opening, College for Creative Studies -Detroit, MI

2017 SOULFIRE Gala for Survivors of Childhood Sexual - Firecracker Foundation, 

Lansing, MI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024 Artist Organizer Fellow, MdW - Chicago, IL

Teaching Artist In Residence, People in Education - Detroit, MI

2023 Community Engagement and Education Programs Manager, Museum of 

Contemporary Art Detroit - Detroit, MI

2022 Lead Art Teacher, Central High School - Detroit, MI

Teaching Fellow, Michigan State University Broad Museum - Detroit, MI

Artist in Residence, Bulk Space - Detroit, MI

School and Educator Programs Intern, Whitney Museum of American Art - 

Manhattan, NY

2021 Education Department Intern, Studio Museum in Harlem - Harlem, NY

Visitor Services Associate, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - Detroit, MI

Gallery Assistant, Playground Detroit - Detroit, MI 

Education and Public Programs Intern, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - 

Detroit, MI

2020 Curatorial and Public Programs Intern,  Wasserman Projects - Detroit, MI

2019-2020 Gallery Manager and Curator, U245 Student Gallery of College for Creative 

Studies - Detroit, MI

Resident Teaching Artist, Project Art USA - Detroit, MI

2018-2020 Gallery Assistant, Scarab Club Detroit - Detroit, MI

2018-2019 Studio Technician, Sculpture Department of the College for Creative 

Studies - Detroit, MI

Student Ambassador, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI

Contemporary Critical Development Club Administrator, College for Creative Studies - Detroit, MI

2017-2019 Studio Technician, Printmaking Department of the College for Creative 

Studies - Detroit, MI

2015-2017 Studio Technician, Sunset Clay Studios - Detroit, MI

PUBLICATIONS

2023 Community As Medicine - People in Education

2022 Maya Davis: The Giving of Taking - Art Plugged

Sick - Anhelo, Anhelo: Marigold Project

2021 To Curate as to Care for the Community Through Access to the Arts - Studio 

Museum in Harlem

AWARDS / COLLECTIONS

2022 Bulk Space Micro Grant Recipient - Detroit, MI

2020 Beth and Edith Ford Scholarship - Detroit, MI

2020 DeSalle Scholarship - Detroit, MI

2019 Artwork Acquired into the Collection of Kevin Beasley - New York, NY 

2019 Mathilda Wilson Scholarship - Detroit, MI

2017 Michael J. Swancutt Scholarship - Detroit, MI

2017 College for Creative Studies Merit Scholarship - Detroit, MI