Maya Almeida

Maya Almeida Araujo has exhibited globally and had sites structurally adapted for her pieces.

She is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice considers art as a platform for connection.

With a focus on the element of water, the work floats between the spheres of still and moving images, artistic installation, and site specific work.

Navigating the confluence of nature, art and technology, her work has developed through critical engagement with her own mind and body in a way that examines fundamental questions of how human beings relate to themselves and to their environment.

Adopting a unique approach to each work, Maya draws on personal experience, culture and ancient philosophy to create visceral immersive experiences. An invitation to step into an imaginary world in a way that is both sensorial and profoundly intimate. It asks how we can come together and ultimately, heal.

London is home but Maya was born in Lisbon to Portuguese/Belgian/German parents. She studied Biology at Imperial College, London. Her artistic path was one of auto-didacticism with training at Central Saint Martins, with best in class equipment manufacturers and under some of the greatest image makers such as Tim Flach and Lois Greenfi...

Master of Photography - The Photography Institute, London UK 2011
People, Strobe & Studio Lighting Broncolor Head Office, Basel 2009
Digital Photography Central Saint Martins, London UK 2003
Photography University of the Arts, London UK 2002
BSc Hons in Biology - Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London UK 1992-1996

2023 - Or Bleu Festival at La Roche Posay, France

2022 - Group Exhibit: Mixed Media Show "In the Locked Garden" (Curated by Nathalie Wertheimer)
2020 - Group Exhibit: Red Dot Miami (Curated by Nathalie Wertheimer)
2020 - Site specific private commission and ongoing show :“ONE” a multimedia installation at the Lisbon Oceanarium. Two years to produce and build. A unique multidisciplinary merging the disciplines of moving image, sound, interactive animation and architecture. A work that explores our ancestral human connection with the sea and with each other.
https://www.oceanario.pt/en/exhibitions/one-the-ocean-as-you-never-felt-it/
2017- Group Exhibit: Tel Aviv International Women Artists Exhibition.
2015- Group Exhibit: P/Art Ibiza Mixed Media Group Exhibit 'Fantasy'.
2015 - Group Exhibit: 125LIVE London - Exhibition Top 100 Photographers recognised for Outstanding Innovation in Photography and Annual.
2014 - Group Exhibit: 12th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition. ‘Underwater Dance’ series. (Curated by Simon Leach) .One of two photographers invited from the UK
2013- Group Exhibit at Metal Culture, Chalkwell Hall, Dance Photography, (Curated by Chris Nash)
2012- Group Exhibit : English National Ballet’s Dance in Fo...