Maya Ballen
Maya Ballen is a Peruvian-based artist, architect, and educator. Her practice combines drawing, installation, performance, and walking habits creating poetic and often playful works that use collective mythologies to explore questions on identity and subjectivity. She is interested in systems such as maps, knitting patterns, and instructions as meditative tools to engage in cognitive disruption and incarnated processes. Maya has shown her work recently at MATE (Museo Mario Testino, 2019), Lima Modern Gallery (2023, 2022), Galería Grau (2022), Galería John Harriman British Cultural Center (2022), Galerie Asterisk* (2022, 2013), and XX BAQ (Quito Biennial, 2016). She studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires while being part of TAC (Creative Actions Workshop), directed by artist Mirtha Dermisache. She graduated as an architect in Lima, Perú, and has worked for more than 20 years developing a diverse practice that moves between art, architecture, and teaching. She has designed art exhibitions at Proyecto Amil, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), and the Peruvian art galleries pavilion at ARCOmadrid 2019.