Maya Hayuk is an internationally celebrated Ukrainian American contemporary artist and activist best known for her massive, iconic, abstract murals seen on every continent but Antarctica. Reflections on the deep symbolism found in ethnography, vexillology and the Tryzub (Ukrainian Trident) are re-proportioned to a massive scale calling to attention themes on identity, tradition and progress.
Hayuk’s work is represented in numerous public and private collections and has been the subject of one-person exhibitions and commissions including The Brooklyn Museum, NY (currently on view), MAAM Museum (Boston, MA), The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), MIMA Museum (Brussels, Belgium), The Embassy of the United States of America (Sanaa, Yemen and San Jose, Costa Rica), FRAC Museum (Dunkerque, France), MOCA (Jacksonville, FL), MOCCA (Toronto, Canada), Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht, The Netherlands) and The Ukrainian Museum (New York, NY). In 2018, Hayuk gave a TEDx Talk from the Center of Art and Design (Brussels, Belgium) called “Trust Fall”, recounting her developing career. For the fall semester of 2021, Hayuk was a visiting artist and scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Masters of Architecture Program. Hayuk maintains an independent studio practice in Brooklyn, NY and is represented by ALICE Gallery (Brussels, Belgium) and GROWROOM//SHOWROOM (Brooklyn, NY).