Maya is an art practitioner, educator, and art therapist from Tokyo, Japan. Currently based in Singapore, she explores traditional and contemporary approaches to working with print, paper, and book forms. She embraces materiality and process, drawing links to cycles of erosion, decay, repair, and rebirth.
Through art-based workshops, classes, and therapy sessions, she has worked with school students, adults with disabilities, and older adults in palliative care. Across varied populations and institutions, she highlights the role art and creativity plays in supporting individual and community wellbeing.
EDUCATION
2024 MA Art Therapy - LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2019 BFA Printmaking - Rhode Island School of Design, United States
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Rhythm: Flux, Flow, Pause, Praxis Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2022 The Garnier et Linker Collection, Salone del Mobile, Italy
2019 Taleamor Park Resident Exhibition, Taleamor Park, Indiana, United States
2019 Printmaking Degree Project Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, United States
2018 Allora, European Honors Program, Piazza Cenci, Rome, Italy
2018 Eruption: The point between, Bibliothè, via Celsa, Rome, Italy
2018 Printmaking Biennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, United States
2017 Kami, Studio Kura Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2016 Experimental & Foundational Studies Triennial, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, United States
CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
2024 Guest Artist, Printmaking with Found Objects, Artist Development Program, Pathlight School, Singapore
2023 Presenter, Food as material in art-based community projects in Singapore: Cultural implications, American Art Therapy Conference, San Diego California, United States
2023 Co-Facilitator, Welcome to the table: Emotional wellbeing recipes - The art therapy blend, presentation and workshop at Let’s Connect: The Intersections of Arts & Care with National Arts Council, National Gallery, Singapore
2022 Co-Facilitator, Origami and card making workshop, World Palliative and Hospice Care Day, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
2022 Volunteer, Enabling Festival, LASALLE College of the Arts & National Gallery, Singapore
2021 Volunteer, Let’s Talk: Art and Mental Health, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre, Singapore
2019 Co-curator, Prior Things, Gelman Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, United States